23 Dec, 2011
This Week in Review: A referendum on fact-checking, and the Times Co. in transition
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 23, 2011.]
Rethinking political fact-checking: PolitiFact, the fact-checking organization launched in 2007 by the St. Petersburg Times,named its lie of the year this week, and the choice wasn’t a popular one: The Democratic claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare was widely denounced among liberal [...]