That, to me, was a big shift. You saw a torrent of advertising, as a lot of it disconnected from the campaigns. Some of the campaigns, you ended up with more ads done by outside groups than by the candidates themselves. We talked three years ago and we went through the philosophy of the fact checker, which is online, anyone can watch. For those of you who dont know what you do, what is the fact checker . The Washington Post launched it in 2007. It was just for the 2008 campaign year. It was originally done by my colleague, michael dobbs, who writes history books now. In 2011, the Washington Post asked me to revive the fact checker and make it a permanent feature. Generally, i write and i have a colleague who works on it with me i write one or two fact checks per day. One runs in the sunday Washington Post as well. I rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. I look for statements that are about big issues, statements that i can use to tell a larger story about the back
With the rise of the super pacs , a lot of the ads were pretty bad. That, to me, was a big shift. You saw a torrent of advertising as a lot of it disconnected from the campaigns. Some of the campaigns, you ended up with more ads done by outside groups than by the candidates themselves. We talked three years ago and we went through the philosophy of the fact checker which is online, anyone can watch. For those of you who dont know what you do, what is the fact checker . The Washington Post launched it in 2007. It was just for the 2008 campaign year. It was originally done by my colleague, michael dobbs, who writes history books now. In 2011, the Washington Post asked me to revive the fact checker and make it a permanent feature. Generally, i write and i have a colleague who works on it with me i write one or two fact checks per day. One runs in the sunday Washington Post as well. I rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. I look for statements that are about big issue
Story about the background of the federal budget, or the Health Care Law, issues that are confusing to people, that they hear politicians talk about, and are wondering, is that really true . It is kind of like a reverse restaurant rating. The worst you can get is four pinocchios. Three is mostly false, one is, there is some problem with the statistic, it may be out of context. If you are completely factually accurate, you get a gepetto check mark. How many gepettos did you give out this year . Maybe four or five. I tell myself i need to give more gepettos. Here is a video you put together about president s. I want to ask you you dont like to talk about the word lying. I want to ask you about the word when we see this video. Cambodia, a small country of 7 million people, has been a neutral nation since the agreement of geneva, signed by the government of north vietnam. American policy since then has been to respect the cambodian peoples neutrality. We did not, repeat, did not trade weap
Welcome to the program. Niger and its neighboring allies have launch aid joint offensive against boca huh ram in the northeastern part of the are country. Its nigers first major push in to nigerian territory. Ahmed is respite has more from abuja the capital. Reporter for nigerias neighbors the fight against boko haram has taken new urgency. Operations against the group is underway. The objective is to push the fighters in to a corner ahead of the expected final onslaught this month. So far, more than 30 towns and villages have been liberated from the fighters since chad and niner joined effort by nigerian and cameroonian troop to his fight the group. For niger chad and cameroon defeating boko haram is crucial. Five years of violence has cut off much of trade against between in africas biggest economy. The group if left up checked there is fear the group will be big become a bigger threat to the entire ying un. They say they are now in a position to fight them. We are now adequately he
That really sentence influence of narcotics. The congress is basically running the whole narcotics organization. And also from the United States should things really implode, you are looking at effects on the civil war. So its not that much of a stretch to claim this is a National Security issue for the United States. The u. S. Imports some 750,000 barrels of petroleum from venezuela every single day. It is in fact the biggest buyer of crude from venezuela. So beyond the titfortat that were seeing are we likely to see any change in those transactions. Basically venezuela needs the United States more than the United States needs venezuela. It used to be the other way around. Now the u. S. Really doesnt need venezuela so much so it can actually be a lot more aggressive in picking a fight. At the same time what it may cause venezuela to do is sell its stateowned subsidiary and stick it to the United States. The question is will they do it . Because they need that thats sort of the flagshi