My first blog post, last Tuesday, took up the subject of fact-checking during the presidential campaign.
I raised the question to editors on Tuesday afternoon because the subject of fact-checking has been very much on the public's mind and very much in the news.
Maddow said that she has "lost [her] mind more than once recently about how bad Politifact is, and how anybody who values the meaning of the word fact needs to stop citing them as an authority on the subject of facts".
As a matter of fact, this subject is gaining more and more popularity due to its widespread applications.
No intentional laws or psychological generalizations would be possible, since no two subjects would, as a matter of fact, have beliefs with the same content.
In 1910, the educator and philosopher John Dewey noted that "science teaching has suffered because science has been so frequently presented just as so much ready-made knowledge, so much subject-matter of fact and law, rather than as the effective method of inquiry into any subject-matter" (cited in Archambault, 1964, p. 182).
The biographer's evidence of her subject's manipulations of fact in her fictions makes for a not unpleasant sense of illicit insight.
Yet in the last few decades artists, if not curators, have become more open to the subject; in fact, of the show's 36 participants from six countries, about half identify with a religion.
Previously, Skype users on non-Intel computers were limited to 6 participants (the subject, in fact, of an AMD subpoena).
Perhaps Meyer-Lindenberg reminded his subjects of that fact when they collected their fee.
With films like Christiane F and Last Exit To Brooklyn, director Uli Edel has a history of delivering controversial subject matter in a matter-of-fact manner.
