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CNN host calls out Politico reporter who says fact checking isnt her job: You ignore that?
By David Edwards
Sunday, October 13, 2013 14:57 EDT
Politico reporter Ginger Gibson shocked CNN guest media critic Frank Sesno on Sunday when she said that she didnt bother to check facts if she was told that her sources were not telling the truth.
During a segment about the increasing role of fact checking organizations like PolitiFact, Sesno asked Gibson how members of Congress responded when they got a pants on fire rating.
Their press secretaries, when its the other guy whos called out, will blast out those as a press release, Gibson explained.
And what do you do with that? Sesno wondered.
Most of the time, ignore them, Gibson admitted.
You ignore it! Sesno exclaimed. Wait, wait, wait. So if someone is called a liar or is exposed in a fact check and youre the reporter of it, you ignore that?
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/13/cnn-host-calls-out-politico-reporter-who-says-fact-checking-isnt-her-job-you-ignore-that/
steve2470
(37,457 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Cha
(297,809 posts)for nothing.
thanks babylonsistah
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Chathamization
(1,638 posts)We need reporters to report on the facts, but PolitiFact or Glenn Kessler style "fact checking" is just as bad as if not worse than "he said/she said" reporting.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)That reality has a well known liberal bias. If they went around telling the truth -- that Democrats are mostly truthful and Republicans are idealogical, compulsive liars -- then people would stop listening to them.
I don't think that excuses them, but explains their motivations.
Chathamization
(1,638 posts)But these kinds of false equivalencies are even worse when they're done under the guise of "fact checking." It's gotten to the point where we need people to fact check the "fact checkers."