{"id":13005,"date":"2008-09-18T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/there-are-a-lot-of-impartial-fact-checking\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:00:44","slug":"there-are-a-lot-of-impartial-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/there-are-a-lot-of-impartial-fact-checking\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are a lot of impartial fact-checking organizations out there that seem to decline in influence as they mushroom in number. People used to sadly note that &ldquo;negative campaigning works.&rdquo; I fear we are entering a phase&ndash;or at least given it a good test run&ndash;when another truism will become &ldquo;false campaigning works.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Britt Robson, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/craigwestover\/2008\/09\/15\/3508\/when_facts_arent_false_--_but_not_true_either#comment_15225\" rel=\"noopener\">commenting<\/a> on Craig Westover&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/craigwestover\/2008\/09\/15\/3508\/when_facts_arent_false_--_but_not_true_either\" rel=\"noopener\">When facts aren&rsquo;t false &ndash; but not true either<\/a>&rdquo;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of impartial fact-checking organizations out there that seem to decline in influence as they mushroom in number. People used to sadly note that &ldquo;negative campaigning works.&rdquo; I fear we are entering a phase&ndash;or at least given it a good test run&ndash;when another truism will become &ldquo;false campaigning works.&rdquo; Britt Robson, commenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}