Quotes About Fact-checking

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

Well, I think the public has been well-served by the increase in fact-checking. And I find it shocking that not all news outlets have invested in hiring fact-checkers because the line is so pervasive.

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

I have no doubt that Glenn Kessler is a nice guy, but the job of 'fact' 'checking' the Washington Post's ally Joe Biden will not rest with anyone so politically biased in his favor. It just won't.

When you hear something that's not correct, it really starts to irk someone.

I have great admiration for the fact-checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact-checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

he never bothered to look them up.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

For those who like to quote Aristotle's wisdom when appealing to his "Prime Mover" argument for the existence of God, let us remember that he also claimed that women had a different number of teeth than men, presumably without bothering to check.) Everything

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

Any and all errors in this book are entirely my responsibility. It's very important to me to make sure all the facts in this book are correct. If our extensive fact-checking process has missed any errors, please e-mail me at [email protected] and we'll get them corrected in later editions—go to this book's website for a full list of any I have been made aware of.

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning truth-checkers Politifact, a firm which compares each candidate's statements to evidence, Trump's statements were verifiably false 76 percent of the time when he ran for office in 2016.