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Posted
9 November 2008 @ 11pm

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Editing

What is a fact checker?

Last week I guest-taught a lesson on fact checking to a group of journalism students at SF State. I was nervous and overly prepared. But the class was great, mostly because the students and the professor had a lot of questions they wanted answered right away. And partly because we got to watch this video again:

I can’t get tired of it. Not quite ready to build a shrine to Alex Trebek, though.


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