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Berkman Center for Internet and Society
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The President and Fellows of Harvard College

RB 193: Facts Are Boring

On the podcast for Radio Berkman we tear apart the difference between Truth, Fact, and Evidence, and the quiet, but irreplaceable, role of the humble factchecker in our media: Author/factchecker Jim Fingal on the Lifespan of a Fact; Former GQ intern and factchecker Gillian Brassill on how factcheckers get paid to watch True Blood; Veteran Atlantic Monthly factchecking department head Yvonne Rolzhausen on the underinvestment of media resources for factchecking; David Weinberger, author of the recent book Too Big To Know on what a fact is and why they don’t make for good storytelling

Produced 6 Mar 2012

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Last updated March 06, 2012