TY - BOOK AU - Graves,Lucas TI - Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism SN - 9780231542227 AV - PN4784.O24.G738 2016eb U1 - 302.23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Journalism - Objectivity KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4588491 ER -