Sentence examples for media fact from inspiring English sources

So he recruited Bill Adair, the editor of PolitiFact, whom he first met in 2007 at a forum about the rise of media fact checking.

ORLANDO, Fla .— Newt Gingrich called on the "super PAC" supporting him to edit or take down a 28-minute pseudodocumentary attacking Mitt Romney's record at the investment firm Bain Capital after news media fact checkers found a number of inaccuracies.

Mr. Romney's campaign is running a raft of harsh advertisements against the president, including one that has been repeatedly criticized by news media "fact checkers" for falsely alleging he is stripping work requirements from the 1996 welfare overhaul law.

Indeed, the traditional business warning, caveat emptor, seems to apply, with nothing but occasional media fact checking to protect the unschooled consumer-voter.

Only time will tell if the diminishing voice of media "fact checks" can speak loudly enough to correct misinformation spread by well-financed interests.

Meanwhile, media fact-checkers were poring over the highly technical parts of the TV debate, when the candidates hurled statistics at each other.

If so, the ad-makers working for Priorities USA will have achieved an extraordinarily rare feat: They will have created an attack ad so preposterous that it can be swatted down by media fact-checkers.

("Two Pinocchios out of five is OK, but three is illegal?" asks Mr O'Rourke, alluding to a scoring system used by the Washington Post's Fact Checker which sometimes disagrees with other media fact-checkers).

Yesterday my colleague Patrick Wintour wrote a blog saying that media fact-checkers should give up and go home because they are going to find it impossible keeping up with all the exaggeration and hyperbole we're going to get in the final 48 hours of this compare.

He insisted he gave the media facts.

The ad is flat-out wrong, much more so than the average political spot, and has been trashed by every media fact-checking organization out there.