LEADER 03940nam 2200649 450 001 9910798700403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54222-4 024 7 $a10.7312/grav17506 035 $a(CKB)3710000000776219 035 $a(EBL)4588491 035 $a(OCoLC)956139608 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646433 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16417642 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646433 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14916205 035 $a(PQKB)11577991 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16343070 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14916206 035 $a(PQKB)24545322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4588491 035 $a(DE-B1597)479971 035 $a(OCoLC)984640600 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4588491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11242254 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL986038 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000776219 100 $a20160825h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDeciding what's true $ethe rise of political fact-checking in American journalism /$fLucas Graves 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-17506-X 311 $a0-231-17507-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart I. The Landscape of Fact-Checking -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Ink-Stained Fact-Checkers -- $t2. Objectivity, Truth Seeking, and Institutional Facts -- $tPart II. The Work of Fact-Checking -- $t3. Choosing Facts to Check -- $t4. Deciding What?s True -- $t5. Operating the Truth-O-Meter -- $tPart III. The Effects of Fact-Checking -- $t6. Fact-Checkers and Their Publics -- $t7. The Limits of Fact-Checking -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aOver the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political campaign and send the White House press corps scrambling. Yet fact-checking is a fraught kind of journalism, one that challenges reporters' traditional roles as objective observers and places them at the center of white-hot, real-time debates. As these journalists are the first to admit, in a hyperpartisan world, facts can easily slip into fiction, and decisions about which claims to investigate and how to judge them are frequently denounced as unfair play. Deciding What's True draws on Lucas Graves's unique access to the members of the newsrooms leading this movement. Graves vividly recounts the routines of journalists at three of these hyperconnected, technologically innovative organizations and what informs their approach to a story. Graves also plots a compelling, personality-driven history of the fact-checking movement and its recent evolution from the blogosphere, reflecting on its revolutionary remaking of journalistic ethics and practice. His book demonstrates the ways these rising organizations depend on professional networks and media partnerships yet have also made inroads with the academic and philanthropic worlds. These networks have become a vital source of influence as fact-checking spreads around the world. 606 $aJournalism$xObjectivity 606 $aJournalistic ethics 615 0$aJournalism$xObjectivity. 615 0$aJournalistic ethics. 676 $a302.23 700 $aGraves$b Lucas$f1970-$01562491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798700403321 996 $aDeciding what's true$93830151 997 $aUNINA