Do you accept Fact Check as reputable source?

[Sirkarl101]

I have stuck my foot in my mouth on more than one occasion largely due to poor information. Do most people consider Fact Check as a reputable source of information? If not, is there a non bias source of facts so when I do get involved with a thread I have sound facts? I also use the government official web sites which I am a little concerned about. Thanking you in advance for your input.

 

[Gagafritz]

No. When something sets itself up as the final word, you need to check it out. There is a lot of interpretation of news based on someone's viewpoint.

 

[Ringel05]

FactCheck.Org is just as biased as any similar endeavor that caters primarily to one viewpoint. This doesn't mean they get it wrong all the time, it's just use common sense and have open eyes when using any such source, realize there's a potential to highly probable bias in the reporting/content. Simply put, check multiple sources from many points of view, don't rely on just one or two from one "side" or the other.

 

[Sarah G]

I like fact check but they are just a resource. I agree that you should use several sources if you want real facts or as close as you can get to real facts.

 

[spectrumc01]

Factcheck is only acceptable when it supports my opinion.

 

[Sirkarl101]

Thanks for the responses. So basically there is no source for the truth. Everyone has to sift through information that is bias and try to make sense of it and in the end just live with the bias that exists in each of us. That kind of sucks. Thanks anyways.

 

[uscitizen]

Watch only Fox they always present all of the truth.

 

[Ringel05]

Thanks for the responses. So basically there is no source for the truth. Everyone has to sift through information that is bias and try to make sense of it and in the end just live with the bias that exists in each of us. That kind of sucks. Thanks anyways.

Sift through it to try and determine if a bias exists, it doesn't always, besides the biggest challenge to determining any bias is to see the bias in ourselves first and question it.

 

[PredFan]

No, Factcheck and Politi-fact have direct ties to the DNC.

 

[Trajan]

example-

While there’s been little examination of the broader phenomenon of media fact checking, the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs recently took a close look at PolitiFact. Here’s what they found:

A Smart Politics content analysis of more than 500 PolitiFact stories from January 2010 through January 2011 finds that current and former Republican officeholders have been assigned substantially harsher grades by the news organization than their Democratic counterparts. In total, 74 of the 98 statements by political figures judged “false” or “pants on fire” over the last 13 months were given to Republicans, or 76 percent, compared to just 22 statements for Democrats (22 percent).


Lies, Damned Lies, and


caveat emptor.

 

[freedombecki]

example-

While there’s been little examination of the broader phenomenon of media fact checking, the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs recently took a close look at PolitiFact. Here’s what they found:

A Smart Politics content analysis of more than 500 PolitiFact stories from January 2010 through January 2011 finds that current and former Republican officeholders have been assigned substantially harsher grades by the news organization than their Democratic counterparts. In total, 74 of the 98 statements by political figures judged “false” or “pants on fire” over the last 13 months were given to Republicans, or 76 percent, compared to just 22 statements for Democrats (22 percent).

Lies, Damned Lies, and

caveat emptor.

Well said of a vacuous vendor. The last time I went to PoliticFact, my spin meter gauge broke.

Sounds kind of like some politicians--sweet sound, irresponsible facts, because they tell us what the Illuminati want us to know.

 

[rdean]

FactCheck comes out of the heavily right wing conservative Annenberg Foundation. From a time when "facts" weren't the enemy of the Republican Party.

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reagan's, who were very close with the Annenberg's would never recognize today's "Every man for himself and let him die" Republican Party. It's become simply too extreme and fringe. In the past, many Republicans felt it was important to leave something behind that would benefit the country. Today's Republicans say, "Fuck that. We don't practice socialism".

 

[Trajan]

FactCheck comes out of the heavily right wing conservative Annenberg Foundation. From a time when "facts" weren't the enemy of the Republican Party.

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reagan's, who were very close with the Annenberg's would never recognize today's "Every man for himself and let him die" Republican Party. It's become simply too extreme and fringe. In the past, many Republicans felt it was important to leave something behind that would benefit the country. Today's Republicans say, "Fuck that. We don't practice socialism".

you are such a dope, really. so, in your opinion the Ford Foundation is right too?Annenberg died in 2002 his wife several years ago. its a trust dummie.

do you know who for instance, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is?

 

[rdean]

FactCheck comes out of the heavily right wing conservative Annenberg Foundation. From a time when "facts" weren't the enemy of the Republican Party.

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reagan's, who were very close with the Annenberg's would never recognize today's "Every man for himself and let him die" Republican Party. It's become simply too extreme and fringe. In the past, many Republicans felt it was important to leave something behind that would benefit the country. Today's Republicans say, "Fuck that. We don't practice socialism".

you are such a dope, really. so, in your opinion the Ford Foundation is right too?Annenberg died in 2002 his wife several years ago. its a trust dummie.

do you know who for instance, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is?

McCarthy Center hosts Kathleen Hall Jamieson as scholar-in-residence ? CSB/SJU

You mean her? So. What's the point?

 

[freedombecki]

FactCheck comes out of the heavily right wing conservative Annenberg Foundation. From a time when "facts" weren't the enemy of the Republican Party.

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reagan's, who were very close with the Annenberg's would never recognize today's "Every man for himself and let him die" Republican Party. It's become simply too extreme and fringe. In the past, many Republicans felt it was important to leave something behind that would benefit the country. Today's Republicans say, "Fuck that. We don't practice socialism".

you are such a dope, really. so, in your opinion the Ford Foundation is right too?Annenberg died in 2002 his wife several years ago. its a trust dummie.

do you know who for instance, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is?

McCarthy Center hosts Kathleen Hall Jamieson as scholar-in-residence ? CSB/SJU

You mean her? So. What's the point?

Walter Mondale's Press Secretary guarding the henhouse at a fact check nest who wrote "Packaging the President"?

 

[freedombecki]

FactCheck comes out of the heavily right wing conservative Annenberg Foundation. From a time when "facts" weren't the enemy of the Republican Party.

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reagan's, who were very close with the Annenberg's would never recognize today's "Every man for himself and let him die" Republican Party. It's become simply too extreme and fringe. In the past, many Republicans felt it was important to leave something behind that would benefit the country. Today's Republicans say, "Fuck that. We don't practice socialism".

The lefties keep expropriating "rightwing" sites that used to be neutral, but are now just stump organizations for packqaging presidencies for the left, and you know it, rdean.

 

[Trajan]

FactCheck comes out of the heavily right wing conservative Annenberg Foundation. From a time when "facts" weren't the enemy of the Republican Party.

Walter Annenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reagan's, who were very close with the Annenberg's would never recognize today's "Every man for himself and let him die" Republican Party. It's become simply too extreme and fringe. In the past, many Republicans felt it was important to leave something behind that would benefit the country. Today's Republicans say, "Fuck that. We don't practice socialism".

you are such a dope, really. so, in your opinion the Ford Foundation is right too?Annenberg died in 2002 his wife several years ago. its a trust dummie.

do you know who for instance, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is?

McCarthy Center hosts Kathleen Hall Jamieson as scholar-in-residence ? CSB/SJU

You mean her? So. What's the point?

*sigh*

Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Dr. Kathleen Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has written extensively on the press, politics and presidential campaigns. Her research into deceptive political TV ads produced techniques that are now in common use in TV “adwatch” stories. Among the many books she has authored are: “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy” (Oxford University Press, 1992) and “Everything You Think You Know About Politics…and Why You’re Wrong” (Basic Books, 2000).

FactCheck.org : About Us


Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment
Paperback: $13.46 Kindle Edition: $9.87
January 15, 2010

among 'others', non so pejorative ala the left. Notice it wasn't mentioned among her bio there?

 

[AquaAthena]

Factcheck is only acceptable when it supports my opinion.

That's true. We don't agree with the opinions of others; we simply agree with our own opinions expressed by others.

 

[rdean]

Factcheck is only acceptable when it supports my opinion.

That's true. We don't agree with the opinions of others; we simply agree with our own opinions expressed by others.

Opinions aren't "facts". Unless you're a Republican.

 

[Ringel05]

Factcheck is only acceptable when it supports my opinion.

That's true. We don't agree with the opinions of others; we simply agree with our own opinions expressed by others.

Opinions aren't "facts". Unless you're a Republican.

Ya know, that's why I like you, you're such a comedian.