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PolitiFact Bias: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Update on Florida, shark attacks and voter fraud. Back in 2012, PolitiFact Florida created a hilariously unbalanced fact check. Of the claim that shark attacks are more common than cases of voter fraud in Florida. The key to the fact check was PolitiFact Florida's decision to only consider a "case" of voter fraud that was literally a legal. Published a column by the researchers on Oct. 24. They said, in part:. How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? 825,000 illegal ...
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PolitiFact Bias: January 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015. Think we're exaggerating when we say PolitiFact's report cards encourage ill-founded conclusions? Read on, little camper:. Liberals and media critics have complained that Fox News has a habit of stretching the truth in its news and commentaries. Now they have some numbers to prove it. The bloggers at AllGov. PolitiFact misleads people. This stuff amounts to political advertising. Thursday, January 29, 2015. PunditFact officially less accurate than PolitiFact. On Jan 27, 2015.
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PolitiFact Bias: February 2015
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Friday, February 20, 2015. Hot Air: "PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year of 2014 falls apart only two months later". Noah Rothman of the conservative site Hot Air offers a reminder that PolitiFact's 2014 "Lie of the Year" was a train wreck. Just about two months later, PolitiFact’s LOTY imploded. 8220;A team of prominent researchers suggested Thursday that limited airborne transmission of the Ebola virus is ‘very likely,’” The Washington Post. With Will's choice of words. Lie of the Year. Lie of the Year 2014.
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PolitiFact Bias: December 2014
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Thursday, December 25, 2014. We thank the excellent blog Legal Insurrection. For making " 2014: Another year, another laughable Lie of the Year. Post of the Day" for Dec. 25, 2014. What a nice present! Lie of the Year 2014. William A. Jacobson. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. PolitiFact editor explains the difference between "False" and "Pants on Fire". Why wouldn't that be "Pants on Fire," for example? You know, that's an interesting question. And we totally understand when readers might disagree and say ...
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PolitiFact Bias: PolitiFact Wisconsin: The privileged, prominent and wealthy are superheroes
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Saturday, July 4, 2015. PolitiFact Wisconsin: The privileged, prominent and wealthy are superheroes. PolitiFact Wisconsin gives us a July 2015 item that helpfully reminds us of PolitiFact's singular ability to take the statements of political figures- especially conservatives- out of context. The item was not a fact check. Cue PolitiFact Wisconsin, which found Walker's story fishy (bold emphasis added):. Founding fathers ordinary people. And while campaigning, he has emphasized. Of course we thought of t...
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PolitiFact Bias: The (annotated) Principles of PolitiFact
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The (annotated) Principles of PolitiFact. Link to PolitiFact site version of "Principles". PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact National is run by editors and reporters from the St. Petersburg Times. An independent newspaper in Florida. The PolitiFact state sites are run by news organizations that have partnered with the Times. The state sites follow the same principles as the national site.
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PolitiFact Bias: PolitiFact Florida tweezes Governor Scott
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015. PolitiFact Florida tweezes Governor Scott. We've noted PolitiFact's inconsistency in judging claims narrowly or broadly, using the tag "Tweezers or Tongs" to identify our stories highlighting those inconsistencies. PolitiFact Florida noted that Scott made his claim in the company of a number of other claims. As he boasted about the state’s record during his economic summit for GOP presidential contenders in Orlando June 2, Scott reeled off a bunch of statistics about Florida...
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PolitiFact Bias: Are PolitiFact's "report cards" misleading?
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Are PolitiFact's "report cards" misleading? One of our recurrent themes at PolitiFact Bias concerns the misleading nature of PolitiFact's "report cards." PolitiFact admits it does not perform its fact checks on a scientific basis, particularly in that story choices do not occur randomly. Despite that, it's utterly common for PolitiFact to publish a "report card" story encouraging readers to consider a candidate's "report card.". The reader comments from PolitiFact's Facebook page.
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PolitiFact Bias: May 2015
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. NewsBusters: "PolitiFact's 'Half True' Evaluation of Fiorina Layoffs Claim Is Utterly False and Dishonest". NewsBusters' Tom Blumer exposes PolitiFact's ongoing difficulty in evaluating context with his article " PolitiFact's 'Half True' Evaluation of Fiorina Layoffs Claim Is Utterly False and Dishonest. Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina made a statement in Forbes. As his headline states, the cybersquatter "accuses Carly Fiorina of wishing she'd laid off 30,000 emplo...
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