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Old 03-21-2014, 08:16 PM
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The fact checker need to be checked.


Born July 6, 1959 (age 54)
Cincinnati
Education Brown University (BA); Columbia University (MA)
Occupation Journalist
Notable credit(s) The Washington Post

A columnist for the Wall Street Journal attacked the whole idea of awarding Pinocchios as akin to movie-reviewing, saying “the ‘fact check’ is opinion journalism or criticism, masquerading as straight news.[20] The conservative Power Line political blog devoted three articles to critiquing one of Kessler’s articles, calling him a “liberal reporter,” and asserting that “these ‘fact-checkers’ nearly always turn out to be liberal apologists who don a false mantle of objectivity in order to advance the cause of the Democratic Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Kessler_(journalist)
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