Deciding What’s True : The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.
Graves, Lucas.
Deciding What’s True : The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Landscape of Fact-Checking -- Introduction -- 1. Ink-Stained Fact-Checkers -- 2. Objectivity, Truth Seeking, and Institutional Facts -- Part II. The Work of Fact-Checking -- 3. Choosing Facts to Check -- 4. Deciding What's True -- 5. Operating the Truth-O-Meter -- Part III. The Effects of Fact-Checking -- 6. Fact-Checkers and Their Publics -- 7. The Limits of Fact-Checking -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Over the past decade, fact-checking outlets have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Deciding What's True recounts the routines of the journalists at these innovative news organizations and plots a compelling, personality-driven history of the fact-checking movement and its recent evolution.
9780231542227
Journalism - Objectivity.
Electronic books.
PN4784.O24.G738 2016eb
302.23
Deciding What’s True : The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Landscape of Fact-Checking -- Introduction -- 1. Ink-Stained Fact-Checkers -- 2. Objectivity, Truth Seeking, and Institutional Facts -- Part II. The Work of Fact-Checking -- 3. Choosing Facts to Check -- 4. Deciding What's True -- 5. Operating the Truth-O-Meter -- Part III. The Effects of Fact-Checking -- 6. Fact-Checkers and Their Publics -- 7. The Limits of Fact-Checking -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Over the past decade, fact-checking outlets have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Deciding What's True recounts the routines of the journalists at these innovative news organizations and plots a compelling, personality-driven history of the fact-checking movement and its recent evolution.
9780231542227
Journalism - Objectivity.
Electronic books.
PN4784.O24.G738 2016eb
302.23