Jonathan Gruber was right again! - wink wink NM

Fareed Zakaria was busted for plagiarism - more than once. nm

And still more intelligent than most of the news - crews rolled together

Who took the survey? - NPC

Who knows? But Jameson Parker reported it as fact. - LOL - just another blogger.

And in other news, the sky is blue. - :)

One more for Gruber. YAY, Gruber. - LM

I tend to disagree with your opinion. - Truthhurts

From Politifact's website link you posted are the TRUE statements: “The comparisons are interesting, but be cautious about using them to draw broad conclusions. We use our news judgment to pick the facts we’re going to check, so we certainly don’t fact-check everything. And we don’t fact-check the five network groups evenly. CBS, for instance, doesn’t have a cable network equivalent, so we haven’t fact-checked pundits and CBS personalities as much.”

“Our score cards only include statements made on that network by a pundit or a host or paid staffer. That means they do not include statements made by elected leaders, candidates or party officials. We feel it’s difficult to hold a network accountable for the comments of a politician.”

"Also, if a Fox News host appears on NBC and makes a claim that we fact-check, that rating would appear on the NBC page. In this case, it’s about the network that aired the content, not the person who said it."
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If you take the false reporting, you have to look AT the false rating comment by Politifact to see why they gave this a false rating. You will find that most are because of a number, which Politifact would point out. Take the Fox File, for instance:

Bill O’Reilly’s comment on shootings by police got a “Mostly False” because Politifact “Government’s best data is flawed,” or take George Will’s Ebola comment where "some doctors state Ebola can spread by a sneeze or a cough."  At the time, that was a statement made by ome doctors, but Politifact rated that statement false because it was taken out of context. Note also, Dick Cheney statement that "We have four combat-ready brigades out of 40 in the U.S. Army." And it was rated false. Why? Because “7 would be more accurate, maybe more,” according to Politifact which is really nit-picking. I would rate a statement like that as Half True or Mostly True because Cheney wasn’t off  on the number that much according to Politifact’s research.

You also have to take in account how much fact checking was done for each network. While looking at a lot of the various statements made by these networks and their hosts, there’s only a rating for mainly 1, 2, or 3 statements. That’s not quite an overview of a network. In fact, that's hardly rating the network's true/false statements at all. Most of the statements of MSNBC etc.and their hosts only had 1 or 2 statements checked, while Fox had 3 or more statements checked. A little lop-sided I would say. :)

Excellent post as usual. You always do your research. - Abby

My point is that they seem to pick up the minority - "facts" and report

Well that is certainly better than what Pundifact found. sm - Rosie

Oh, Pundifacts. Progressives. Fox chews them up - and spits them out.(sm)

Pundifact is a branch of Politifact, that's why I posted Politifact's comments - Truthhurts