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Deciding what's true : the rise of political fact-checking in American journalism / Lucas Graves.

By: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231175067 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231175074 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Deciding what's trueDDC classification:
  • 302.23 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.O24 G73 2016
Contents:
Part 1. The landscape of fact-checking -- Introduction -- Ink-stained fact-checkers -- Objectivity, truth seeking, and institutional facts -- Part 2. The work of fact-checking -- Choosing facts to check -- Deciding what's true -- Operating the truth-o-meter -- Part 3. The effects of fact-checking -- Fact-checkers and their publics -- The limits of fact-checking -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The landscape of fact-checking -- Introduction -- Ink-stained fact-checkers -- Objectivity, truth seeking, and institutional facts -- Part 2. The work of fact-checking -- Choosing facts to check -- Deciding what's true -- Operating the truth-o-meter -- Part 3. The effects of fact-checking -- Fact-checkers and their publics -- The limits of fact-checking -- Epilogue.

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