Sentence examples for basic fact-checking from inspiring English sources

Even if the Guardian journalist got the rogue statistic from one of her interviewees, the blog is easily discoverable for a bit of basic fact-checking.

I repeat: I cannot see how Harvard University Press could have published this book without some basic fact-checking and a sterner sense of intellectual relevance and organization.

Weisberg said he was unsurprised a desperate agent might resort to movies for inspiration, but dismayed that authorities "didn't do apparently the most basic fact-checking or vetting of the information.

Responding to reports that the "Newsnight" segment was broadcast without some basic fact-checking that would have exculpated the 70-year-old retired politician it implicated, Alistair McAlpine, Mr. Entwistle said it reflected "unacceptable journalistic standards" and never should have been broadcast.

Basic fact-checking, meanwhile, is absent from the reports.

Opinion is one thing, but when Joe Lyman makes easily disputed factual claims, some basic fact checking is called for.

It's shocking that neither Moretti, his book publisher, nor the MIT Sloan Management Review did basic fact checking on this claim.

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A serious editorial -- including basic fact checking -- would have found fundamental issues in this polemic posturing as analysis.

Glenn Beck and his radio partner Pat Gray, who apparently don't believe in even the most basic fact checking, did one of the strangest six-minute riffs on this ad I have ever heard in my life.

Obama's claim that the three trade deals are boosting exports does not survive a basic fact check.