Fact! Jake Tapper and ABC News to Spruce Up “This Week” with Added-Value Fact-Checking

Felix Gillette — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:18:07 -0400

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This Sunday, Bill Adair, Washington bureau chief of the St. Petersburg Times and editor of PolitiFact, will join ABC News to fact check the newsmakers (Hillary Clinton! Robert Gates! Rudy Giuliani!) appearing on ABC's This Week.

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Jake Tapper will be hosting.

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Mr. Tapper and Mr. Adair know each other from "fact-checking forums."

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Jay Rosen originally suggested the idea.

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Jay Rosen has lots of suggestions.

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Two weeks ago, ABC News began live-tweeting This Week.

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NBC's Meet the Press is still the dominant Sunday morning news show.

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Fact! Jake Tapper and ABC News to Spruce Up “This Week” with Added-Value Fact-Checking