Director of Digital News, Steve Elliot believes journalists are leaving their traditional roles behind. Fact checking is a role that we stand firm on, and some leave it behind. Kristen DelGuzzi from AZ Fact Check says, “Fact checking is what good journalists do, and is also a service here in Phoenix, Arizona.” Reporters will send in questions, so they can fact check. But they don’t fact check on your average Joe. They fact check on elite members of society because not everyone tells the truth. Sadly, people tend to extend the truth, and twist it into what they want the viewer to hear. This is where AZ Fact Check comes in, and fills in the truth, or falsehood.

Alex Ferri, another member from AZ Fact Check believes, “[Fact checking] really flexes your muscles in trying to find documents, and I think it’s a really good basis for journalism.” So if you want to leap down the journalistic river bend, you must fact check and be willing to call out a lie a lie. After all, this is what makes you commendable.

Hilarious.

Left-wing bias in media is endemic, and a reason why they can’t see a true statement as true when it disagrees with their bias(es) and why they let leftist falsehoods go without comment.

It is sad that the left has gone so far around the bend that their definition of “truth” has become “does it agree with liberal dogma”.

Journalists have an obligation to ask questions when they think the politician is lying or misleading by ommission, it is only by holding politicians to a standard that we cna cut through the partisan bull and get politicians to be honest.

But do we really want that? It’s much easier to believe the solutions are simple and that x party is bad, or brand y party or critic a socialist and if only we replaced a government everything would be sunshine and rainbows.

Critical thinking is hard and we get the government and media we deserve

The reality is that Ryan’s speech was not a “new low” in political lies, but the “fact checkers” fact checking was a new low in using “fact checking” as a purely political piece of theater.

So when you start your article with this very flawed premise, the rest of the article is basically doomed.

See part of the problem with the media is the dishonesty. Just because lots of media say someone is lying doesn’t make it so. And just because someone says that they will lower the oceans doesn’t make it so.