RB 193: Facts Are Boring

Published: March 6, 2012, 4:48 a.m.

This week we tear apart the difference between Truth, Fact, and Evidence, and the quiet, but irreplaceable, role of the humble factchecker in our media with: -Author/factchecker Jim Fingal on the Lifespan of a Fact -Former GQ intern and factchecker Gillian Brassil -Veteran Atlantic Monthly factchecking department head Yvonne Rolzhausen -David Weinberger, author of the recent book Too Big To Know