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"In journalism circles, 2016 is the year of the fact-checker.
"It's really remarkable to see how big news operations have come around to challenging false and deceitful claims directly. It's about time," said Brooks Jackson, the director emeritus of FactCheck.org.
PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan added: "All of the media has embraced fact-checking because there was a story that really needed it."
If fact-checking was just a sidebar before, it is now front and center. One man is responsible for that change: Donald Trump.
"In journalism circles, 2016 is the year of the fact-checker.
"It's really remarkable to see how big news operations have come around to challenging false and deceitful claims directly. It's about time," said Brooks Jackson, the director emeritus of FactCheck.org.
PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan added: "All of the media has embraced fact-checking because there was a story that really needed it."
If fact-checking was just a sidebar before, it is now front and center. One man is responsible for that change: Donald Trump.
Oh come on. His base could care less about fact checking. The more outrageous the lie, the more they like it.
Oh come on. His base could care less about fact checking. The more outrageous the lie, the more they like it.
Yeh, it seems to have made no difference that every other sentence is a lie or hyperbolic exaggeration
Maybe because there's just so many of them, how does the media react?
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