{"id":2850,"date":"2012-03-06T00:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:41:26","slug":"rb-193-facts-are-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2012\/03\/06\/rb-193-facts-are-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"RB 193: Facts Are Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/7\/8297640_912e266d57_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/2012-03-05_factcheck.mp3\"><strong>or download<\/strong><\/a><strong> | &#8230;also in <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/2012-03-05_factcheck.ogg\">Ogg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week we tear apart the difference between Truth, Fact, and Evidence, and the quiet, but irreplaceable, role of the humble factchecker in our media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Author\/factchecker Jim Fingal on the Lifespan of a Fact<\/li>\n<li>Former GQ intern and factchecker Gillian Brassil on how factcheckers get paid to watch True Blood<\/li>\n<li>Veteran Atlantic Monthly factchecking department head Yvonne Rolzhausen on the underinvestment of media resources for factchecking<\/li>\n<li>David Weinberger, author of the recent book Too Big To Know on what a fact <em>is<\/em>\u00a0and why they don&#8217;t make for good storytelling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Listen up! 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