The Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact.com is taking heat from liberals and conservatives alike these days. In my latest for the Huffington Post, I argue that the problem is with the genre itself: perceptions about politicians aside, there just aren’t enough lies to feed the fact-checking beast.
Tags: fact-checking, Huffington Post, PolitiFact
Media | Dan Kennedy | 
December 13, 2011 11:37 am | 
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