Newsmakers Watch Out: "This Week" Starting New Fact-Check Mission
From ABC News’ Jake Tapper’s Political Punch blog:
“THIS WEEK” Joins With Politifact to Fact-Check the Newsmakers
“As you may know, we’re trying out some new things on THIS WEEK. Two weeks ago we started live-tweeting of the show (which will next happen at 10 am ET this Sunday).
This week we’ve invited Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact to fact-check the newsmaker interviews featured on the program.
The idea was first proposed by NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen http://jayrosen.posterous.com/my-simple-fix-for-the-messed-up-sunday-shows
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