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Deciding what's true : the rise of political fact-checking in American journalism / Lucas Graves.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Description: 324 p. : ill. : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231542224
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23
LOC classification:
  • PN 4784 G776d 2016
Contents:
Part I. The Landscape of Fact-Checking; Introduction; 1. Ink-Stained Fact-Checkers ; 2. Objectivity, Truth Seeking, and Institutional Facts ; Part II. The Work of Fact-Checking; 3. Choosing Facts to Check; 4. Deciding What's True ; 5. Operating the Truth-O-Meter ; Part III. The Effects of Fact-Checking ; 6. Fact-Checkers and Their Publics ; 7. The Limits of Fact-Checking.
Summary: Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political campaign and send the White House press corps scrambling. Yet fact-checking is a fraught kind of journalism, one that challenges reporters' traditional roles as objective observers and places them at the center of white-hot, real-time debates. As these journalists are the first to admit, in a hyperpartisan worl.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 4784 G776d 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000143975

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The Landscape of Fact-Checking; Introduction; 1. Ink-Stained Fact-Checkers ; 2. Objectivity, Truth Seeking, and Institutional Facts ; Part II. The Work of Fact-Checking; 3. Choosing Facts to Check; 4. Deciding What's True ; 5. Operating the Truth-O-Meter ; Part III. The Effects of Fact-Checking ; 6. Fact-Checkers and Their Publics ; 7. The Limits of Fact-Checking.

Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political campaign and send the White House press corps scrambling. Yet fact-checking is a fraught kind of journalism, one that challenges reporters' traditional roles as objective observers and places them at the center of white-hot, real-time debates. As these journalists are the first to admit, in a hyperpartisan worl.

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