{"id":45448,"date":"2009-11-19T19:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091118\/0851156986.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-19T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T00:52:54","slug":"what-does-it-say-when-a-comedy-show-does-more-fact-checking-than-news-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45448","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Say When A Comedy Show Does More Fact Checking Than News Programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poynter has an interesting article, looking at <i>The Daily Show<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=101&#038;aid=173534\" >as being a leader in media criticism<\/a>, an area where it does an excellent job, even if that&#8217;s not its intention.  But, what struck me most of all in the description of the team behind the show, was that it has a full-time researcher and fact-checker, who looks for multiple sources to verify the content that they&#8217;re using in the show.  Now, in a typical news room, this shouldn&#8217;t be surprising.  But, instead, we&#8217;ve actually seen the opposite.  Fewer and fewer news operations have full-time fact checkers (or fact-checkers at all).  Yet, here we&#8217;re talking about a <i>comedy program<\/i>, whose main job is to make people laugh, and it employs a fact-checker who verifies points with multiple sources.  Doesn&#8217;t that seem backwards?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091118\/0851156986.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091118\/0851156986.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091118\/0851156986&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=319071a85c167f8b01dd1d2fce8b1565&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=319071a85c167f8b01dd1d2fce8b1565&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=5OJLUr15P3w:8ju4ZscF6bU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=5OJLUr15P3w:8ju4ZscF6bU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=5OJLUr15P3w:8ju4ZscF6bU:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/5OJLUr15P3w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poynter has an interesting article, looking at The Daily Show as being a leader in media criticism, an area where it does an excellent job, even if that&#8217;s not its intention. But, what struck me most of all in the description of the team behind the show, was that it has a full-time researcher and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}