How do you protect your credibility as more people make Truth-O-Meter rulings under the PolitiFact brand?

Adair: One of the lessons of national chains, particularly in the food business, is the importance of training and quality control. I did some research on how fast-food chains do it before we started and we have applied the lessons to our state ventures. Good training is really important. We do some pretty intensive training for the reporters and editors who are involved with PolitiFact state sites and then, after they launch, we continue to help them with editing and making Truth-O-Meter rulings. Our partnership with Austin has been a success largely because they put some very talented people on the PolitiFact team. But I think the training and our continued support was also critical. We’re not limiting ourselves to newspapers. We’ve had conversations with radio stations, political blogs and Web-first publications. We’ll partner with any news organization that can dedicate two or three full-time reporters to the project and make a sustained commitment.

[leggi l'intera intervista di Steve Myers di Poynter Online a Bill Adair]

(grazie a Luca Conti per la segnalazione)

No, non è Anno Zero, non è Porta a Porta, non è Matrix, cioè: non è l’Italia. La trasmissione è la domenicale This Week della Abc, il sito è PolitiFact, specializzato in “fact checking”. Il conduttore Jake Tapper afferma, naturalmente, che intende fare la sua parte di “fact checking” in diretta, in trasmissione. Ma subito dopo il programma il sito dell’Abc e quello di PolitiFact avranno la “prova realtà” delle affermazioni fatte. La prima sarà Hillary Clinton.