the rise of political fact-checking in American journalism Graves, Lucas 1970- creator text bibliography nyu 2016 2016 monographic eng 324 p. : ill. : 24 cm. 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. 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. Lucas Graves. Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English Periodismo Journalistic ethics Ética periodística PN 4784 G776d 2016 302.23 0231542224 2016009516 MiAaPQ 160825 20230914125952.0 9917849179404201 spa