"Students launch "Meet the Facts" urging fact-check of NBC's Meet the Press"

[Clio the Leo]

Students launch "Meet the Facts" urging fact-check of NBC's Meet the Press

April 22, 2010 5:45 pm ET by Karl Frisch

We've noted that ABC's This Week is working with PolitiFact.com on a trial basis to provide a weekly fact-check of the network's Sunday show and that rival David Gregory, host of NBC's Meet the Press has said of fact-checking his program, "people can fact-check Meet the Press every Sunday on their own terms."

Not content with letting Gregory off the hook, a pair of college students has launched MeetTheFacts.com in an effort to put pressure on the NBC Sunday show to do the right thing. Says the website:

Meet The Facts is a non-partisan grassroots effort to encourage the NBC television program Meet The Press to incorporate a formal fact checking procedure for all statements made on air by its guests. That analysis would then be released to the public, preferably within several days of the broadcast.

Reached for comment, MeetTheFacts.com co-founder Chas Danner -- a journalism and writing student at The New School in New York City -- said the website was launched because, "Meet the Press has lost a lot of its journalistic relevance. Guests from both ends of the political spectrum know how to come on the show and get away with making false statements."

Danner added, "Jake Tapper and This Week are definitely out in front on this issue, but even they have said it's only an experiment. This should be an essential component of all Sunday shows."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004220055

[BlooInBloo]

1. David Gregory on fact checking: "It's not our role"....

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/12/29/gregory

"I think there are a lot of critics who think that . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role."

[JuniperLea]

3. I guess spreading unconfirmed, untested rhetoric...

Is his role.

What a jerk.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Gregory is such a republicon stooge

Thinks highly of himself, but is a FAIL freak when it comes to real journalism

[JuniperLea]

2. Damn librul colleges!

:rofl:

Take THAT, Mr. Gregory... asshat that you are!

Fine, I'll fact check on my "own terms" which are now for the moment resting with these fresh young minds!

[rurallib]

4. It should be a scroll under the screen and be done live.

Surely NBC could find at least two people who know what is going on that could respond immediately.
How about Rachel & Keith?

[pinboy3niner]

5. Hats off to these young students

And what a great title: MeetTheFacts.com (bookmarking).