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Deciding What’s True : The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231542227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deciding What’s TrueDDC classification:
  • 302.23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.O24.G738 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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