Sorting out the "truth" may seem a treacherous endeavor in such a politically polarized time. But we believe our journalists can play a greater role as an honest broker for voters bewildered by the barrage of campaign talk.
So in a move rare for a news organization, we're dedicating a team of reporters and researchers to meticulously examine the rhetoric of candidates and their partisans, and then make a call: Is the claim true or not?
You might think such work would be standard journalistic fare. But many news organizations can spend less money and get less grief if their political reporting sticks to stenography and puffery.
It's easier to record the words and claims of competing candidates than to vet their accuracy. It's easier to write about the strategy of using negative advertising than to do the painstaking research to sort out whether the claim is actually true or false.
— Neil Brown, Executive Editor of the St. Petersburg Times, announcing Politifact, a new project to determine whether candidate statements are actually true.
Michael Savage Is A Disgrace
I have 2 sets of friends, each have sons with Autism. I'm sure they would love to find out that their sons are having temper problems. I have a neice that was born with Asthma, family is middle class and now that Christa is an adult I'm sure she's going to love to find out about how she participated in welfare fraud as she gasps for air. Her parents had to sell their house on Long Island and move their family (3 children then)out West where the air was better for her.
Michael Savage is a disgusting pig and the sad part is that there are people who listen to him and believe what he says. Personally, I hope he rots.