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When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways? -- Jon Stewart
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. -- Sarah Zettel
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun. -- Lee Child
When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece. -- Graham Moore
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction. -- Francine Prose
Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology. -- Evan Osnos
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy. -- Ira Glass
There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again. -- Wayne Knight
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. -- Thomas Sowell
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography. -- Ann Coulter
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians. -- Alice Dreger
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts. -- Chevy Chase
You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself. -- Elle Macpherson
I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were. -- George Clooney
The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging. -- Craig Newmark
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work. -- Malcolm Turnbull
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. -- Eric Alterman
I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.' -- Phil Simms
You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it. -- Roxane Gay
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. -- Rachel Maddow
I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap. -- Craig Newmark
It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time. -- Hillary Clinton
'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity. -- James Taranto
People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking! -- Mick Jagger
[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking. -- Scott Eastwood
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. -- Thomas Friedman
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast. -- Alex Gibney

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