Word is bond? Fact-checkers raise the question mark
by Pauline Betche
Media is touted as the check on politicians, public processes and discourses. Being confronted with this high position of functioning as the “fourth estate”, conscientious and professional journalists should report correctly. But in our digital age, this role isn’t always played well.
Fact-checkers have agreed on code of principles to make their work transparent. (Photo and art: ECPMF)
The Internet represents both instigation of inaccuracy and the combat against it. Today’s speed-driven journalism demands finding the balance between informing people as soon as possible and research and appropriately checking one’s facts. The use of quotation…
