Editor and Publisher: How Fact-Checking Took Center Stage in 2008 Campaign

"'It's just not good,' [Brooks] Jackson concludes, 'when Americans go to vote that they do so with their heads full of disinformation that has gone unchecked by the only entity that has a special protection under the Constitution of the United States to investigate it. I mean, why have a First Amendment if you're not going to use it?'"

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