Back in early December 2019 I wrote a short essay, a critique of the media “fact checker,” PolitiFact. PolitiFact is one of several such organizations that reviews for truthfulness not only political assertions made by politicians but various claims and statements in everything from climate change, to immigration, to economics. PolitiFact and groups like it have become a standard fall back source enabling the media to solemnly pronounce on just about anything said or written appearing in the public square. And thus supposedly giving the media the right to assert a kind of infallibility when examining such questions. In this they are closely allied … Continue reading →
