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Fact Check The phone rings. It’s the magazine, they’re running a story on me and they peruvian need to make sure they have their facts straight. They rerun the interview (although much shorter), but this time it’s sort of a test — I have to guess what the author of peruvian the piece thought was the answer. Q: What topics are you interested in? A: Well, computer science and, uh, law. [ding!] Q: What kind of law? A: Well, right now I’m particularly interested in constitutiional peruvian law. [bzzt!] A: Uh, uh, oh, and intellectual property law. [ding!] After all this, they still don’t trust me (why should they?) and ask for people they can call to back up my assertions. It is a simplistic method of factchecking, but one apparently appropriate for our simplistic method of journalism. Neither reporter nor factchecker need look at reality; all that is important is what people say reality is.
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