I recently became aware of a workshop on credibility called WICOW, or the Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web. There’s a lot of good research that’s being done here and it’s encouraging to see that its being included in the International World Wide Web Conference too. There is a consistent theme however, that I [...]
Fact Today, False Tomorrow
Verification in reverse is defined as the politicized unmaking of solid fact.
This term was introduced to me by Jay Rosen a couple of weeks ago while listening to the August 30th podcast of “Rebooting the News”. The term made me a little angry at first – I don’t like politics and the thought of being [...]
Want Some Facts With Your News?
About two months ago, Jay Rosen wrote a blog piece about his give-and-take with the mainstream media via Twitter where he was making an attempt to propose fact checking initiatives by the major networks competing in the Sunday Morning market. The gist of the piece is a recount of Rosen’s attempts to contact different parties [...]
