I too just recently had a fact checking faux pas when at six in the morning I was awoken by a giant cacophony of sirens from firetrucks and police cars and I happen to read my Twitter feed and see that in New York City on 1 25th St. there were parades of firetrucks and police cars sirens blaring at three in the morning. Evidently this was happening all across the country. Evidently Fire trucks and police cars were having tantrums about defunding. At least that’s what I read in Twitter and so I took to social media as well and said some thing about that and I was schooled promptly about the fact that here in my town it was not in fact a tantrum parade but a response to a fire. Oops… Big oops... I still think that that guy in the White House who I will not name needs to get his fact checking together before it tears us all apart.
Not nearly enough publications have fact-checking departments these days. As a writer, though, I love it when I am professionally fact-checked. It saves me from my own mistakes and makes me much less stressed about big, complicated stories.
I too just recently had a fact checking faux pas when at six in the morning I was awoken by a giant cacophony of sirens from firetrucks and police cars and I happen to read my Twitter feed and see that in New York City on 1 25th St. there were parades of firetrucks and police cars sirens blaring at three in the morning. Evidently this was happening all across the country. Evidently Fire trucks and police cars were having tantrums about defunding. At least that’s what I read in Twitter and so I took to social media as well and said some thing about that and I was schooled promptly about the fact that here in my town it was not in fact a tantrum parade but a response to a fire. Oops… Big oops... I still think that that guy in the White House who I will not name needs to get his fact checking together before it tears us all apart.
Not nearly enough publications have fact-checking departments these days. As a writer, though, I love it when I am professionally fact-checked. It saves me from my own mistakes and makes me much less stressed about big, complicated stories.