Dishonest Political Fact Checkers and the Pinocchio Press »
by James Taranto
In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy. We suppose people who work as fact checkers have long dreamed of becoming writers and editors, who enjoy, respectively, the glory and the power in journalism.
The new face of journalism?
Outside the world of journalism, fact checkers were pretty much unknown until recently. …
September 6, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »