Once again, FactCheck.org is serving in a partisan role.
The group is not true to its self-proclaimed mission.
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
FactCheck.org has been failing in its "nonpartisan mission" lately.
Recently, Andrew Karter, Intern, FactCheck.org, wrote a propaganda piece claiming that the Obamas did not use taxpayer money on their European vacation.
Read more here.
Just days later, there's another problematic piece from FactCheck.
It's an article written by D'Angelo Gore, Researcher, FactCheck.org.
D’Angelo Gore earned his B.A. in journalism at Temple University and joined the Annenberg Public Policy Center in October 2007. He previously interned with the Philadelphia Daily News as a copyeditor/fact-checker and served as a contributing writer for the Washington Informer covering local news in Washington, D.C.
Gore fails to do a nonpartisan assessment. Instead, he spins for the Obama administration when writing about "Michelle Obama's Staff."
Here's the question and short answer summary:
Q: Does First Lady Michelle Obama have an "unprecedented" number of staffers?
A: A spokeswoman for the first lady says that Michelle Obama currently has a staff of 24. That may indeed be the largest of any first lady, but Hillary Clinton, with 19 staffers, and Laura Bush with at least 18 and perhaps more, weren’t far behind.
Why not just say YES? That would be the appropriate short answer.
Why add the "but, but, but Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush had large staffs" in the short answer?
D'Angelo Gore does debunk some clearly false claims made in a chain e-mail, but he goes on to act as an apologist for Michelle Obama's "unprecendented" number of staffers.
FactCheck should stick to facts rather than argue the case for Obama.
It's unfortunate that the group is showing this bias. It's digging its own grave.
Oh, well.
2 comments:
You are right. FactCheck.org is partisan, only it is partisan for the Republican party. It was created by the Annenberg Public Policy Center started by Walter Annenberg. Walter and wife, Leonore have a long list of political donations they have given out...100% to Republican candidates. Does that sound unbiased?
So I applaud the author for bringing this to our attention.
anneberg trust is not the same thing as annenbergs who made their last donations years and years if not decades ago. Annenberg trust also donates to npr is npr right wing?
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