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We readOnly in New YorkSorting out the "truth" may seem a treacherous endeavor in such a politically polarized time. But we believe our journalists can play a greater role as an honest broker for voters bewildered by the barrage of campaign talk. So in a move rare for a news organization, we're dedicating a team of reporters and researchers to meticulously examine the rhetoric of candidates and their partisans, and then make a call: Is the claim true or not? You might think such work would be standard journalistic fare. But many news organizations can spend less money and get less grief if their political reporting sticks to stenography and puffery. It's easier to record the words and claims of competing candidates than to vet their accuracy. It's easier to write about the strategy of using negative advertising than to do the painstaking research to sort out whether the claim is actually true or false. | |
For those of us in Brooklyn
where the presidential winner is a foregone conclusion, this may be the most exciting aspect of the general election. I love doing voter registration - it might be my favorite of all campaign activities. Only yesterday there was a diary on DailyKos looking for Brooklynite suggestions on how to uproot the abysmal Ed Towns. Obama may well provide the opening, not only for that, but for a shakeup of the entire county power structure. What a good thing that would be!