The PolitiFact team recently visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the third annual Global Summit on Fact-checking. I’ll be posting more on this soon, but in the meantime here is a photo of some of us with street art in the city.
My Louisiana grandmother would make a delicious carrot cake for our birthdays that I’ve come to think of as the quintessential New Orleans-style carrot cake. Its distinguishing features:
The ingredients of the frosting are cream cheese, butter, confectioners sugar and pecans. That’s it!
Here’s a photo of this cake, which is very dear to my heart.
I’ve been on a mason jar salad kick and this is my best-looking one yet. Tomatoes, shallots, mushrooms, ginger dressing, pasta, salmon and salad.
Here’s my op-ed for PolitiFact and the Tampa Bay Times, summing up PolitiFact’s 2016 visit to Iowa to cover the presidential candidates.
DES MOINES — The art and craft of political fact-checking is not much to look at, usually. We sit at desks and read transcripts. We watch politicians on TV. We read documents and reports. On lively days, we talk with national experts on the phone. Every now and then, we might have a heated conversation with a press secretary.
So when PolitiFact decided to send a small team to Iowa, I jumped at the chance: Fact-checkers unbound from their desks! READ MORE.
Our team went to Iowa recently to cover the caucuses; we snapped this selfie quickly on our way to a campaign rally. From left to right, it’s me, reporter Lauren Carroll and deputy editor Katie Sanders.
It started snowing en route to John Wayne's birthplace, where we'll see Donald Trump this morning. pic.twitter.com/5s0JrN6vWd
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) January 19, 2016
I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times. It starts:
Washington — I’m a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties. These days, I get two questions repeatedly: “Is it worse than it’s ever been?” and “What’s up with Donald Trump?”
I’ve been fact-checking since 2007, when The Tampa Bay Times founded PolitiFact as a new way to cover elections. We don’t check absolutely everything a candidate says, but focus on what catches our eye as significant, newsworthy or potentially influential. Our ratings are also not intended to be statistically representative but to show trends over time.
Donald J. Trump’s record on truth and accuracy is astonishingly poor. READ MORE.
I discussed PolitiFact’s work fact-checking the presidential primary debates on PBS’s “Washington Week.” It was also the day of the Paris terror attacks.
With summer coming to an end, it seems appropriate to post this list I wrote up for a friend: my recommendations for books to read on vacation.
I spoke with Erik Wemple of the Washington Post about how we plan PolitiFact’s coverage of presidential candidates like Donald Trump. The accurate headline made me laugh: “PolitiFact editor: ‘I don’t want to turn the whole site into the Donald Trump channel.’ ” Read Erik’s piece here.
I talked about fact-checking Donald Trump recently on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter.