An Editors Weblog post reflects on coverage of Sarah Palin's "death panels" remark and the rise of fact-checking sites like FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.com, which won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Why do reporters work to establish the truth on one hand and help sustain lies like "death panels" on the other? Federica Cherubini suggests journalists need to revise their notions of objectivity to compensate.
May 29, 2011
