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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 r ....
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 p ....
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