Podcasts about Bill Adair

Early in his career our guest, Bill Adair, worked as a journalist, author, and later founded the fact-checking organization Politifact. And in 2013 he accepted a position at Duke University as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, where he now teaches journalism in the Sanford School of Public Policy and directs the Duke Reporters' Lab. We discuss the negative effects of lying in politics, different types of lies, why people fall for lies, how fact-checking works, the response of journalists to political lying, and his recent book: Beyond the Big Lie-The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.  

Steve Adubato is joined by Sen. Vin Gopal (D), Democratic Conference Chair and Chair of the Education Committee, to discuss charter schools, the consolidation of school districts, and the dangers of political influence on school boards. Then, Steve Adubato welcomes Bill Adair, creator of PolitiFact and author of “Beyond the Big Lie,” for a conversation … Continue reading "Sen. Vin Gopal (D); Bill Adair"

As we get ready for Burns Night on 25 January, we're delving into the Love Scotland archives to bring you three episodes that reveal the life and legacy of Robert Burns. - We all know the songs and poems written by one of Scotland's most famous sons – but who were the people that most influenced his life and his writing? Host Jackie Bird is on a mission to find out. This week, she's joined by Christoper Waddell, learning manager at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, and Professor Gerard Carruthers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Together, they look at poets, family members, friends and educators who made their mark on the Bard. To enjoy more episodes of Love Scotland, please follow or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. For more information on the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, click here. Explore the National Trust for Scotland's Robert Burns Collection online here. Use of Green Grow The Rashes, O by Bill Adair, courtesy of University of Glasgow. - A brand new series of Love Scotland will appear in your podcast feed later this spring.

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Brian Williams, Peter Baker, Rev. Al Sharpton, Basil Smikle, Steve Schmidt, Bill Adair, Stuart Stevens, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Eddie Glaude, Andrew Weissmann, and Dan Harris. To read the transcript of President Carter's ‘Malaise Speech', visit https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-energy-and-national-goals-the-malaise-speech

The “L-word.” It took some time for journalists to call a lie a lie when politicians uttered provable falsehoods. After all, don't all politicians stretch the truth when it comes to policies, opponents or their own accomplishments? Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist and educator, shares his thoughts and experiences in his book “Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.” The creator of PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, and co-founder of the International Fact-Checking Network, has ideas about the problem -- and possible remedies. Adair is a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University and a leader in the effort to combat misinformation. And, at the end of a year chock full of election rhetoric to analyze, he is my guest and guide on Equal Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PolitiFact co-founder Bill Adair is still doing liberal-media interviews for his book on why Republicans lie more. He admitted to a public-radio host that the "Truth-O-Meter" is an imprecise, subjective measurement. Everything about the "independent fact-checkers" is loaded with partisan opinion.

Donald Trump's penchant for fabrication and malicious claims against immigrants and others did not seem to matter to voters in the last election. A majority of voters chose Trump to serve a second term. My guest has been chronicling lying in politics for the past 17 years. Bill Adair is the creator of PolitiFact. We'll talk about his latest book, Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

Many of Donald J. Trump's cabinet picks have something in common: a very close relationship with Fox News. On this week's On the Media, hear about the revolving door from the conservative network to the White House. Plus, election conspiracy theories from Kamala Harris supporters go viral. And a satirical news site buys up Alex Jones' Infowars. [01:00] Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, about the re-opened revolving door between conservative media and the Trump administration. [11:52] Host Micah Loewinger sits down with Anna Merlan, senior reporter at Mother Jones, to discuss the flurry of apparent Democratic voters questioning election results on social media, and why, without backing from public officials, “BlueAnon” is likely a nonstarter.[20:05] Host Brooke Gladstone chats with Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact and author of the new book Beyond the Big Lie, about the history of fact-checking and why the field – in desperate need of resources and reinforcements – is struggling to break through in our information ecosystem. [33:23] Host Micah Loewinger talks with Matt Pearce, former staff writer at the LA Times, and president of Media Guild of the West, about the media's audience problem.[43:00] Host Brooke Gladstone calls up Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion, because The Onion bought Alex Jones' Infowars. Need we say more. Further reading / listening:“A comprehensive review of the revolving door between Fox and the second Trump administration," by Matt Gertz“Election Conspiracy Theories Are For Everyone,” by Anna MerlanBeyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, by Bill Adair“Lessons on media policy at the slaughter-bench of history,” by Matt Pearce“Here's Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars',” by Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron fictitious CEO On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Lying has always been a part of politics, but in recent years, political lies have come to dominate our elections and their outcomes. Even the notion that facts and truths can be objective and shared across the political divide has been put into question. As we head into a fraught election, Kara speaks with Bill Adair, professor of journalism & public policy at Duke and author of Beyond the Big Lie, and Timothy Snyder, Yale history professor and author of On Freedom, about which party lies more; the role that social media plays in amplifying and spreading falsehoods; why it's hard to get believers to turn away from the “Big Lie”; and why factuality is a cornerstone of freedom. Plus: Snyder calls The Washington Post's decision not to endorse a presidential candidate (dictated by owner Jeff Bezos) “anticipatory obedience” to tyranny.  Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find Kara on Threads/Instagram @karaswisher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The monologue this time is about Trump's Madison Square Garden rally where featured speakers and comedians spewed vulgar, crude "jokes" and vile, racist comments to rile the mouth breathers. Then, John interviews Bill Adair who is the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the director of the Duke Reporters' Lab. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (with the PolitiFact staff), the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse, and the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress. They discuss his new book "BEYOND THE BIG LIE: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do it More, and How it Could Burn Down Our Democracy". Next, he interviews Dawn Huckelbridge, Founder of Paid Leave for All PAC. She has spent her career in gender policy, political organizing, communications, and building early-stage programs and campaigns. And lastly, John jokes with comedian Rhonda Hansome about Trump and the election.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How do you speak truth to power when people call you biased just for checking facts? This year features several high-stakes elections, and a new threat to the truth is AI. DrSturg lets you test yourself with AI vs. real examples and she and guest, Politifact founder Bill Adair, talk about journalism's relationship with the truth.  Check out Bill Adair's book Beyond the Big Lie.  Follow Dr. SturgTwitter -Prof. Amanda Sturgill (@DrSturg) / XWebsites -Sturg says|Unspun's SubstackQuestions and TipsTheUnspunPodcast@gmail.comDr. Sturg's BooksDetecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake NewsWe are #AltGov 

This is an excerpt from the full episode "The Art of Political Lying (and Why Republicans Do It More) (with Bill Adair)" Michael Steele speaks with Bill Adair, Duke Professor and founder of the fact-checking site PolitiFact about the epidemic of political lying and why Republicans do it more. Michael also discusses his time as RNC Chairman when he was asked to lie about the birtherism surrounding Former President Barack Obama. If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or share it with a friend! Check out "BEYOND THE BIG LIE: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do it More, and How it Could Burn Down Our Democracy?" here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beyond-the-Big-Lie/Bill-Adair/9781668050705 Follow Bill Adair @BillAdairDuke Follow Michael @MichaelSteele Follow the podcast @steele_podcast Follow The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline

Marissa talks with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, founder of Politifact and author of Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, about the serious implications misinformation and lies spread by politicians can have on our democracy. Marissa and Bill then take a somewhat soothing digression into the subject of IPAs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marissa talks with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, founder of Politifact and author of Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, about the serious implications misinformation and lies spread by politicians can have on our democracy. Marissa and Bill then take a somewhat soothing digression into the subject of IPAs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Steele speaks with Bill Adair, Duke Professor and founder of the fact-checking site PolitiFact about the epidemic of political lying, why Republicans do it more and how we can begin to make political lying unpopular and unacceptable. Michael also discusses his time as RNC Chairman when he was asked to lie about the birtherism surrounding Former President Barack Obama. If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or share it with a friend! Check out "BEYOND THE BIG LIE: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do it More, and How it Could Burn Down Our Democracy?" here:  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beyond-the-Big-Lie/Bill-Adair/9781668050705 Follow Bill Adair @BillAdairDuke Follow Michael @MichaelSteele Follow the podcast @steele_podcast Follow The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline

In this conversation, Bill Adair discusses the epidemic of political lying, particularly focusing on the impact of Donald Trump on political discourse and the evolution of fact-checking. He reflects on his background as a journalist and the founding of PolitiFact, emphasizing the need for accountability in media and politics. Bill also shares his 'Lying Hall of Fame' to explore historical figures and events that have shaped the landscape of political dishonesty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Politifact founder, Duke University professor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Bill Adair certainly isn't the first person to raise the alarm about the problem of lying in American politics. But what's really interesting about his new book, Beyond the Big Lie, is that Adair also has innovative solutions to fixing what he calls an “epidemic of political lying.” One idea, he explained to me, is punishing politicians for their lies through fines. Another, is by pioneering a national pledge, in the manner of Grover Norquist's successful taxpayer protection pledge, to commit politicians to telling the truth. Good honest stuff from America's foremost authority on political lying. As a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, Bill Adair covered everything from small-town crime to big-time politics. He was a metro reporter who wrote about natural disasters, a business reporter who covered the airlines and a data journalist who explored the patterns of race and wealth. As the newspaper's Washington bureau chief, he took readers behind the scenes to watch a White House advance team, to see the backroom deals of a congressional chairman, and to watch lawyers prepare for the Supreme Court. He interviewed a president, countless senators and once got to chat with Bono. In 2007, he launched PolitiFact, a fact-checking site with a Truth-O-Meter that rates politicians' factual claims. The site spawned a dozen state sites that rated the claims of governors and other state officials. It also inspired fact-checkers around the world to start their own sites. He then co-founded the International Fact-Checking Network. He came to Duke University in 2013 as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy. He teaches journalism in the Sanford School of Public Policy and directs the Duke Reporters' Lab, where students and professionals conduct research about fact-checking and the future of journalism. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (with the PolitiFact staff), the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse and the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

A new book examines how and why politicians lie, and why Republicans are leading the war against the truth. We hear from Bill Adair, the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and author of the new book "Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, why Republicans do it more, and how it could burn down our democracy."

America is drowning beneath a tsunami of lies.The 2024 presidential campaign may be distinguished by the sheer volume and audacity of lying. Donald Trump has made embracing The Big Lie—the false claim that he won the 2020 election—a condition of entry into the MAGA universe. Once you accept The Big Lie, similarly brazen but smaller lies flow easily. And so Trump falsely claims that immigrants are eating pets and that disaster relief money is being stolen by Democrats and given to immigrants.Lying is a bipartisan phenomenon, but Republicans dwarf Democrats in the number of lies that they tell. In September, New York Times fact-checkers analyzed a single stump speech made by both presidential candidates. Former President Trump made 64 false or inaccurate statements in his speech, while Vice President Kamala Harris made six such statements. In October, CNN determined that Trump made 40 false claims in just two speeches.During the course of his presidency, Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims, an average of 21 per day, according to the Washington Post. “This is the flood-the-zone concept that … Steve Bannon articulated early in the Trump presidency,” said Bill Adair, who founded the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking organization PolitiFact in 2007 when he was Washington bureau chief of the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times). “The other practitioner of this is Vladimir Putin.”Adair is now the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the director of the Duke Reporters' Lab. He has a new book, “Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.”“I think the consequences (for lying) are minimal, if any, now for Republican politicians, because the echo chamber repeats the lies so easily and Republican politicians are not held accountable,” explained Adair.Fox News has shown that political lying can be profitable. “Conservative media not only has looked the other way when Republican politicians lie, but conservative media has echoed the lies brought in by commentators that have repeated the lies, and conservative media, interestingly, has found there's money in those lies,” said Adair. “Fox found if it did not repeat the lies about the 2020 election, that it lost viewers.” There is also a price for lying: In 2023, Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $788 million for peddling phony conspiracy theories claiming that Dominion voting machines had switched votes from Trump to Biden. Adair argued that the disparity in political lying between Republicans and Democrats “has serious consequences. It not only makes it impossible for us to have a serious conversation about climate, to have a serious conversation about immigration, but it threatens our democracy. Because we can very easily envision not just a rerun of 2020 come the results of the November election. We can see that this time it could turn into a real crisis for our country all because of li

Marissa talks with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, founder of Politifact and author of Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, about the serious implications misinformation and lies spread by politicians can have on our democracy. Marissa and Bill then take a somewhat soothing digression into the subject of IPAs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do we fact check in an ocean of lies? In this episode Rick is joined by Bill Adair, the founder of PolitiFact and a professor at Duke University, to discuss the growing epidemic of political lying, especially within the Republican Party. They explore the history of political dishonesty, the role of conservative media in amplifying misinformation, and the challenges of fact-checking in an era dominated by figures like Donald Trump. The conversation highlights the danger that widespread deception poses to democracy and addresses the role of new technologies, like deepfakes, in further distorting truth in political discourse. Bill's book, Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, available now. Timestamps: (00:01:34) The Big Lie (00:06:21) The red blue divide (00:19:00) The danger to the right Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson examines the state of the presidential race. Politifact's Bill Adair details his new book Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Liars, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Filling in for Joan Esposito, William Muck interviews Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact, Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, and author of the new book, "Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy." Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive).

On today's show, North Central College Political Science Professor William Muck fills in for Joan; his guests are: – Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact, Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, and author of the new book, Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy – Philip Barker, professor of political science at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire – North Central College Political Science Professor Suzanne Chod Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive). "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" now has its very own podcast. Two, in fact: "Joan Esposito Full Episodes" and "Joan Esposito Featured Interviews." You can subscribe to one or both! Just search for Joan Esposito wherever you get your podcasts, or get links to the podcasts by visiting heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive.

Bill Adair is the founder of the Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact and is the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the director of the Duke Reporters' Lab. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (with the PolitiFact staff), the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse, and the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress. His new book is BEYOND THE BIG LIE The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy. Join us for this compelling chat about the breakdown of truth, facts and reality in politics, and its existential threat to democracy. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel

In this episode of Policy 360, Duke Professor Bill Adair joins us to discuss lying in politics. Adair founded the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking organization PolitiFact. His new book, Beyond the Big Lie, explores how and why politicians lie, which party does it more, and what can be done about it. This episode is part of our ongoing series of policy-focused conversations related to the 2024 election. Guest host: Phil Napoli, Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University.

1 THE PEOPLE WHO SHAPED ROBERT BURNS We all know the songs and poems written by one of Scotland's most famous sons – but who were the people that most influenced his life and his writing? Host Jackie Bird is on a mission to find out. This week, she's joined by Christoper Waddell, learning manager at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, and Professor Gerard Carruthers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Together, they look at poets, family members, friends and educators who made their mark on the Bard.  To enjoy more episodes of Love Scotland, please follow or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  For more information on the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, click here. Explore the National Trust for Scotland's Robert Burns Collection online here. You might enjoy some of our past episodes on Robert Burns. Simply scroll back through the Love Scotland feed to hear instalments on Auld Lang Syne and Burns' death. Use of Green Grow The Rashes, O by Bill Adair, courtesy of University of Glasgow.

Julieanne and Wendy interview Diana.  Diana is a RN, yoga instuctor, and jeep enthusiast. Wheeling with her husband, Bill  Adair, since they first met. She can be found driving her postal themed  RHD LJ.  An affliliate of Rockstar Garage and Yukon Ambassador; attends  many GAC events.

Museum director Kim Sajet takes listeners to stand in front of a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, the revered commander who led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War. But it's actually the frame that steals the show. According to conservator Bill Adair, “The frame gives us information that the painting simply cannot.” In this case, the frame showcases Grant's major battlefield triumphs. Another, gifted to George Washington by the King of France, tells the story of a political marriage. Then, Chicana artist Ruth Buentello explains why she frames her portraits in soft, worn fabrics that she scavenges from the linen closet of life. Ulysses S. Grant, by Ole Peter Hansen Balling King Louis XVI of France, by Charles-Clément Bervic Gamer Niñas, by Ruth Buentello Under the Mexican Colchas, Kinship Exhibition, by Ruth Buentello

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Adair, the creator of PolitiFact and the co-founder of the International Fact-Checking Network joins host Nikita Roy to discuss the current state of misinformation in the age of generative AI and the role of journalism in combating it.Bill is a Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, where he researches new ways to expand fact-checking and combat misinformation. He is currently working on a book about lying in politics. We discuss the potential threats and opportunities that generative AI brings to the industry, the cutting-edge work at the Duke Reporters Lab using generative AI, and the future of automated fact-checking. Tune in to hear Bill's optimistic outlook on leveraging AI to safeguard our information ecosystem.Thoughts or questions? You can reach us here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Irena Wiley was a diplomat's wife. But she was also an artist who used her art to reflect the humanity of the many people she encountered all around the world. Bill Adair is an artist who purchased Wiley's pieces at a junk auction nearly 35 years after she died. This special episode of Consolation Prize is their story--how Wiley's work brought the humanity of devastated people to the fore, and how Bill's work has brought Wiley's work to the fore.Consolation Prize is a podcast of R2 Studios at George Mason University. This episode was produced by Abby Mullen and Frankie Bjork. Show notes are available at consolationprize.rrchnm.org; for more about Irena Wiley's work and life, visit irenawiley.com.

Stephen Glass's story is legendary in certain circles –  he is one of the most famous liars in journalism. In 1998, as a young writer for the New Republic and other magazines, Glass fabricated more than 40 articles. And not just small details, he made up whole characters and scenes. His story even became a film called Shattered Glass. After Glass was caught, he had to somehow put his life back together again. He did find employment (not as a journalist) and he had a longtime partner. He decided he'd live by a simple rule: always tell the truth. But when Duke Sanford professor Bill Adair invited Glass to speak to his ethics class, he discovered a little-known part of Glass's story. He had vowed not to lie again, but he found he had to break that promise. Read the article Loving Lies on Air Mail Get show notes, transcript & credits

This week we have the riveting true story of Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism. Seeking redemption, he decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. He found a second chance. Then he broke that rule—at a painful price. Bill Adair, a reporter and founder of PolitiFact, who is now a journalism professor at Duke University, joins Ashley and Mike to discuss Glass's incredible story. It's an episode you won't want to miss. You'll find all this and more in this week's Morning Meeting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we have the riveting true story of Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism. Seeking redemption, he decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. He found a second chance. Then he broke that rule—at a painful price. Bill Adair, a reporter and founder of PolitiFact, who is now a journalism professor at Duke University, joins Ashley and Mike to discuss Glass's incredible story. It's an episode you won't want to miss. You'll find all this and more in this week's Morning Meeting. View on Air Mail →

Jim Kavanagh, writer at The Polemicist and CounterPunch and author of the article, "The American Farce Unravels: Shreds of January 6th," joins us to discuss the Trump impeachment trial. The Trump legal team is in disarray as a number of attorneys have resigned. Reports suggest the president wanted the team to focus on his allegations of massive voter fraud, whereas legal experts argued for a strategy founded on the assertion that Congress can not institute impeachment procedures against a president who no longer holds office. Alexander Mercouris, editor-in-chief at TheDuran.com and host of "The Duran" on YouTube, returns to The Critical Hour to discuss the Barr Durham investigation and apparent cover-up. In yet another sign that the Biden administration will be whitewashing the investigation into the origins of Russiagate, FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to deliberately misleading the FISA court and received a sentence far below the standard for such a crime. Clinesmith was given a year's probation and allowed to walk free despite ample evidence that he was part of an organized effort to intentionally mislead the court and subvert justice.Dr. Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Eugene Craig, Republican strategist and former vice chair of the Maryland Republican Party, join us to discuss the COVID-19 relief package and political instability in the United States. The GOP has countered the Biden team's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill with a skinny bill that totals only $600 billion. Will US President Joe Biden accept it or go with Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) recommendation of using budget reconciliation to bypass Republican opposition? The Republican party struggles to maintain its political footing post Donald Trump as Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has founded a political action committee to push against the party's embrace of the former president. Niko House, a political activist, independent journalist and podcaster, joins us to discuss the government's crackdown on domestic speech and dissent. A number of mainstream journalists are coming together to support a government crackdown on the media. Alleged lefty Anand Giridharadas posed an extremely dangerous question as he recently argued “it's time for this question to be front and center: Should Fox News be allowed to exist?” Also, Bill Adair, founder of "Politifact," called for “a bipartisan commission to investigate the problem of misinformation and make recommendations about how to address it,” perhaps through “regulations and new laws.” Meanwhile, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is warning against the danger of new domestic terrorism laws. Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof.com, joins us to discuss his latest article about Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Gosztola writes that Biden's notorious warhawk pushes the Pax Americana paradigm for order, and that he "thinks if the United States does not impose its will and shape the world, then there will be no law and order." He goes on to discuss Blinken's alarming statements and policy positions on Ukraine, Libya, and Venezuela among other nations that the US has destabilized. Dan Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Decline of American Democracy," joins us to discuss the coup in Myanmar. The Myanmar military has overthrown the government and imposed a one-year emergency rule until new elections can be held. They are expected to soon reveal their handpicked government ministers which are expected to be both former and current military personnel. The move came after the military's lopsided loss in recent elections in which they argued widespread fraud. Many are anticipating a harsh repression of dissent as extensive dissatisfaction of the coup manifests itself on social media. Miko Peled, an author and activist, joins us to talk about Israel. In Miko's latest Mintpress news article, he argues the Biden administration's early indicators are that they will bend the knee to the Benjamin Netanyahu wing of the Israeli government. Peled discusses a recent panel of young people that he hosted. He says that the Democratic party would do well to listen to the younger generation as they push for an Israeli peace settlement that respects the concerns of the Palestinians. Nicholas Ayala, editor at the Anticonquista Media Collective, joins us to discuss the unity of Latin American nations against the declining US empire. He also explains how the current anti-war positions in the United States leave little room for the anti-imperialist argument pushed by the victims of US imperial hegemonic oppression. Ayala explains how the political chaos and instability in the US has created new alliances in the two ruling parties, and that "each alliance represents a different section of bourgeois interests in the capitalist-imperialist empire."

In a special episode, Policy 360 joins a panel of Duke University experts for a debrief the day after election day 2020. Sanford professors Mac McCorkle, Director of POLIS: Center for Politics, and Deondra Rose, director of Research at POLIS: Center for Politics, moderate a discussion with four other professors here at Duke. John Aldrich is a professor of Political Science and an expert on politics in the United States. Duke Law School professor Guy-Uriel Charles is an expert on constitutional law, election law, campaign finance, and more political issues in the United States. He is also the Co-Director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race, and Politics. Public policy and journalism professor Bill Adair is the director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy. Bill also created the Pulitzer Prize-winning website Politifact. Judith Kelley is the Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy. She is an expert in international relations and has written extensively about election observation in an attempt to monitor democracy across the world. Watch the entire video from the Zoom event: The Day After Election Day: An Expert Recap: https://bit.ly/3oXy801 Subscribe to the Policy 360 podcast: social.sanford.duke.edu/Policy360_ApplePodcasts Read the episode transcript: https://sanford.duke.edu/articles/day-after-election-day-expert-recap-policy-360-podcast Music: Blue Dot Sessions freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/ Music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

Bill Adair was reporting on politics in DC when he realized the importance of fact-checking what politicians said, not just reporting on it. The idea of PolitiFact was born, and Adair, now a professor at Duke University, talks about its goals and its reach across the country. WRAL PolitiFact reporter Paul Specht explains the process each fact-check undergoes before ever making it online or on-air. For complete PolitiFact coverage from WRAL go to https://www.wral.com/politifact/18768740/

On April 7, the Library Company of Philadelphia hosted a candid conversation about lessons learned in the making of Ghost River: Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, the Library Company’s first graphic novel. This web-based symposium featured an invocation by Curtis Zunigha (Delaware Tribe of Indians); a panel discussion with project advisors, Ron Nash, Curtis Zunigha, and Daniel Richter; a conversation with author Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo), artist Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), and editor Will Fenton, moderated by Bill Adair; and an overview of the Ghost River digital edition (GhostRiver.org) with creators Nicole Scalessa, Ann McShane, and Will Fenton. In this month’s episode of Talking in the Library, Fenton shares some highlights from the afternoon. https://librarycompany.org/2020/04/24/redrawing-history-symposium/

Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying that "a properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate." If a government is by the people, and for the people, – as the Constitution says – then knowledge is an indispensable ingredient to a democracy. When Jefferson said this, he couldn’t have possibly predicted the powerful technologies we possess now. Before the internet, the barrier to knowledge was that information wasn't readily available. Today, ironically the problem is that there’s too much information - and to make matters even worse, there’s an overabundance of misinformation. Consider the term 'fake news.' It's a notorious term that became infamous just a few years ago. And debates are still occurring on whether it influenced the 2016 election. But fake news has always been around. Propaganda is nothing new. When I was a kid, I remember being in the supermarket and seeing this tabloid newspaper called 'Weekly World News.' It’s still around. The paper always caught my attention because it featured a story about a 'batboy.' On the cover was a boy with very pale skin, large, oval-shaped ears and sharp teeth with his mouth wide open, screaming. This picture always confused me because it was right next to other newspapers like the NY Post and the Daily News. At 8 years old, I didn’t know if it was real or fake. False information has been prevalent in history. But the issue we face now is that the internet - particularly social media - allows it to proliferate at unprecedented levels. I personally have blocked a number of pages and people that peddle outrageous conspiracies. I've told friends that post dubious stories on Facebook, to consider taking it down. And I've even gone as far as disabling my account in order to give my mind a break from all the information. But unfortunately, we can't stick our heads in the sand forever. False information flooding social media, whether from domestic or foreign sources, undermines our trust in the electoral process. This flood of false information presses people’s emotional buttons, so that they lose the ability to vote with their heads, and often discourages them from voting at all. According to Richard Hasen, in his new book Election Meltdown, there are four factors that drive voter distrust and cynicism: voter suppression; administrative incompetence in running elections; dirty tricks, both domestic and foreign; and incendiary rhetoric, especially from candidates and people in power. That’s why democracy gets undermined by false information; it creates distrust for the very process we rely on to choose representative government. Moreover, it’s not just making people believe false things—a new Pew Research study suggests it’s also making them less likely to consume or accept information.So how do you distinguish fact from fiction? How do we remain an informed electorate as Thomas Jefferson said? In this episode, we’ll be discussing how you can fact check statements made by politicians and pundits in this era of mass information and mass misinformation. Our special guest today is Bill Adair, he’s the founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website Politifact, a nonpartisan, nonprofit and independent website dedicated to fact-checking statements made by politicians and pundits. Mr. Adair is also the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, where he specializes in journalism and new media, with an emphasis on structured journalism and fact-checking.

Fake news is a hot topic that evokes lots of emotion in the United States and around the world. Bill Adair, Knight Professor of Journalism at Duke University and creator of Politifact, helps listeners decipher between truth and lies on the internet and in the news. NB Teen is a fun and powerful podcast that encourages teens and tweens to live their best lives! 

This week we speak with Bill Adair who is the founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. Peter Fray chatted with Bill about how you make facts count and can you actually keep our leaders honest in real time.

From 2010: If you’re going to get called on the carpet for something you did right, might as well be by Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central’s whirlwind of truthiness, “The Colbert Report.” That’s what happened about a week ago to Bill Adair, Pulitzer Prize winning editor of Politifact.com, the online fact-checking operation spawned by the St. Petersburg Times.

Recently, a team at the Duke Reporters Lab has been developing a fact-checking app for the Amazon Echo. Owners of the Echo can “ask the fact-checkers” about claims they hear on the news and social media. The development team is led by Bill Adair, founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning site  PolitiFact. Student researcher Julia Donheiser and project manager Rebecca Iannucci join Adair to talk through the promise and pitfalls of the project.

It's debate season and Monday night marks the first showdown between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.This hour, we discuss what this first presidential debate means for voters in the Nutmeg State and nationwide. And we talk with PolitiFact.com founder Bill Adair on how his team wades through statements that come out of the mouths of politicians. What does fact checking mean for you this election season? Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Domecast, our weekly podcast on government and politics in North Carolina, is ready for the weekend of March 5-6. We begin this episode interviewing Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checker that has partnered with The News & Observer to inspect the claims of candidates and their campaigns here. Adair explains how it works and how politicians high and low are wary of being “PolitiFacted.” In our second segment, Colin Campbell of The N&O goes deep into the state's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. We get a closer look at the candidates, where they stand and how they differ, replete with audio clips of them explaining their plans for office. And we close it out, as always, with Headliners of the Week. Who wins? It gets somewhat awkward for one member of the Domecast team. Our panel this week — a big one — includes Lynn Bonner and Craig Jarvis of The N&O, Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer, Patrick Gannon and Benjamin Brown of The Insider State Government News Service and Anna Douglas of McClatchy's Washington, D.C. bureau. Campbell hosts. Subscribe to Domecast on iTunes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Ways & Means we hear from the Daily Show’s resident fact-checker Adam Chodikoff. Also, Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Adair and a new movement of reporters going to great lengths to ensure we the people know the truth, especially when it comes to politics. We’ve got Republicans, Democrats and an upstart fact-checker from Iran, a country that has jailed numerous reporters.