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Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".
PolitiFact: service of the Tampa Bay Times created in August 2007, uses the "Truth-o-Meter" to rank the amount of truth in public persons' statements. 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner. [225] Snopes: focuses on, but is not limited to, validating and debunking urban legends and other stories in American popular culture.
Same owner as Channel 23 News. [56] [292] Channel 23 News Channel23News.com Prank website for generating false stories. [51] Channel24news.com Channel24news.com Impostor site, per PolitiFact. Same owner as Channel 23 News. [28] [56] [292] channel28news.com channel28news.com Same owner as Channel 23 News. [56] [292] channel33news.com ...
PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials ...
In 2006, Time magazine named FactCheck.org one of the "25 Sites We Can't Live Without." [22] In 2008, PC Magazine called it one of the "20 Best Political Websites." [23] In 2009, the Association for Women in Communications awarded FactCheck.org the Clarion Awards. [3] In 2010, FactCheck.org won the Delta-Chi-Price of the Society of Professional ...
Credibility gap is a term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War . [ 1 ]
"Imitating the rhythm of sports reports, exciting live coverage of major political crises and foreign wars was now available for viewers in the safety of their own homes. By the late 1980s, this combination of information and entertainment in news programmes was known as infotainment." [Barbrook, Media Freedom, (London, Pluto Press, 1995) part 14]
The attendance at the inauguration claim. And on and on and on. Every fact checker – Kessler, Factcheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact – finds a level of mendacity unequaled by any politician ever scrutinized. For instance, 70 percent of his campaign statements checked by PolitiFact were mostly false, totally false, or "pants on fire" false. [132]