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They used to go, sit in the press conference, come back, write their stories, file them, with no corroboration, no cross-checking of the facts, no getting the other side's version.
Perhaps they were moved by sob stories about salt-of-the-earth family farmers and small-business men forced by estate taxes to abandon their heritage -- although a quick check of the facts would have revealed that such stories are actually quite uncommon, and that the compromise bill offered by the Democratic leadership would have made them vanishingly rare.
But a simple check of the facts reveals that the myth is just that -- a myth.
A check of the facts by NBC indicates these claims may have been slighted skewed.
Here's our latest check of the facts behind some of those claims, from God's role in global warming to the culpability of cows.
Then try checking some of the facts about life before the export boom.
When Trump claimed he could never have participated in a golden shower ritual with Moscow prostitutes because he is a "germaphobe," the media fact-checked the claim by noting that urine is, in fact, sterile, followed by fact-checks of the fact-checks, noting that urine may be sterile in the bladder, but isn't by the time it flows out.
(Now IBM's chief executive, he declined to be interviewed for this story. An IBM spokeswoman also refused to double-check many of the facts in this story).
Double check all of the facts, including spellings of names, dates, times, addresses, license plate numbers, and so on.
This is typically much safer than using a check because of the fact that so many personal details are listed on a check.
And not every outlet did as good of a job checking the facts.
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