Session I
Fact-Checking in an Election Year: Implications for politicians, journalists and voters
MODERATOR
Prof. Chris Wells, UW-Madison SJMC
Chris Wells
PANELISTS
Bill Adair, Editor, PolitiFact.com
Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media & Democracy
Lucas Graves, Columbia University
Bill Adair
Lisa Graves
Lucas Graves
Question for panel:
What is the difference between fact-checking and media criticism (from Jon Stewart to Noam Chomsky)? How does media criticism interact with fact-checking in a media ecology? Is there some foundational difference between the goals and processes of the two?