(Real fact-checks, random Internet image storage.)
And Politifact once vouched for the statement "if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan", before recanting and calling it the Lie of the Year.
Fact checking for your stories at a paper is the essence of responsibility, but as a publishing genre in its own right it's mostly opinion journalism trying to give itself an imprimatur of impeccability.
Stupid literalism: https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/cover32.j...
Inconsistent standards: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvNnfq2XgAQqE4T.jpg
(Real fact-checks, random Internet image storage.)
And Politifact once vouched for the statement "if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan", before recanting and calling it the Lie of the Year.
Fact checking for your stories at a paper is the essence of responsibility, but as a publishing genre in its own right it's mostly opinion journalism trying to give itself an imprimatur of impeccability.