In the years between 1923, when
TIME’s first issue was published, and Luce’s speech, journalistic fact-checking had gone from a virtually unknown idea to standard practice at many American magazines. (These days, journalistic practices aren’t necessarily country-specific —
Der Spiegel, for example, is known for having one of the world’s biggest fact-checking departments — but that wasn’t the case a century ago, and this particular kind of checking was an especially American phenomenon.)
Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet
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They didn't start with tramp, although they should of had , he had so many false statements its beyond counting.