RB 193: Facts Are Boring
March 06, 2012
From the MediaBerkman blog:
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
More from the Truthiness conference here
Last updated March 06, 2012