As part of the background for my recent post on the media, I interviewed Angie Holan, the editor of PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize winning fact-checking site. I’m posting the portion of our discussion that touched on PolitiFact’s mission and process. I’ve found PolitiFact extremely useful as an objective fact-checking source. They do an excellent job… Continue reading
Date Archives → April 2018
Thoughts on the Media and the Challenge of Staying Credibly Informed
“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.” – Samuel Adams, 1768 “There is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily, to an administration. Even though we never like it, and even though we… Continue reading