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Dan Gillmor Aug 20, 2024

Big Journalism is engaged in a parody of fact checking at this point.

Trump gets ho-hum corrections -- often granularly parsed to give him endless benefits of the doubt -- and the fact-checkers don't even pretend to get to every lie.

Democrats get granular parsing, too. But the goal is to find falsehoods and never, ever give the benefit of the doubt.

Fact-checking is a sadly broken both-sides (even when one is lying) enterprise.

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This is a great point. Big corporate journalism is flailing. They are trying to co-opt all of the norms of journalism and pervert them to their goal of influencing the public through dis-information.

But we are on to them now. With every ham handed new attempt they just further demolish their credibility. What's left, much like Trump himself, is a tire old con with a tired old bag of tricks.