Monthly Archive: December 2016
According to PolitiFact analysis, one of these things is not like the others By MATT SHAPIRO In this series culling PolitiFact data, we’ve looked at the aggregate truth ratings they give members of different...
By MATT SHAPIRO In the first piece in our series on PolitiFact bias, we looked at how PolitiFact generally rates Republicans as less honest than Democrats and how their word count betrays the...
By MATT SHAPIRO When it comes to fact-checking, no organization is better known than PolitiFact. The online fact-checking project operated by the Tampa Bay Times is synonymous with the concept of the fact-check as...
Credit: Joseph Thornton via flickr By MATT SHAPIRO When President-elect Donald Trump announced the “Carrier deal” in Indiana, the reactions across the pundit-sphere were predictable. Everyone who hates Trump hated this deal and everyone...
Credit: Netflix By J.D. ECARMA [MAJOR, LIFE-RUINING SPOILERS IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED “A YEAR IN THE LIFE” TWICE ALREADY.] Whatever happened to Rory Gilmore? The former wunderkind made it into Harvard, Princeton and...