Fact-Checking Should be Here to Stay, and Here’s Why

It’s 2007, and the U.S. Presidential Election is fast approaching. St. Petersburg Times bureau chief Bill Adair is deliberating innovative ways to cover the upcoming political frenzy. During previous political campaigns, Adair has been a  self-described “passive co-conspirator…of passing along inaccurate information”. Therefore, being driven partially by guilt, Adair sketches plans for a political fact-checking …