Fact-Check
“Facts
are, after all, what reporters are all about, or at least are supposed to be.
It is factual reporting that we all expect, and indeed depend on, from
journalists. If all political pundits were to suddenly disappear it's hard to
see how we’d be a lot worse off. Factual journalism is a much different matter;
we rely on it to keep us out of the dark. . . .
“The failure to cover the facts is a
fundamental failure. Doesn’t responsible journalism require the hard work of
relating the conflicting political claims to the facts that either support or
discredit them?”
—Henry
Banta,
attorney, columnist and Nieman fellow, “Lessons on covering politics from the late David Foster Wallace,” Nieman Watchdog, July 9,
2012
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• Editorial Comment: True enough—I don’t know what I think about the news until the pundits tell me.
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