{"id":2480,"date":"2008-09-11T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2008-09-11T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T17:00:24","slug":"librarians-sarah-palin-and-fact-checking-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/librarians-sarah-palin-and-fact-checking-oh-my.html","title":{"rendered":"Librarians, Sarah Palin, and Fact Checking (oh my!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/2387\/on-fact-checking-and-sarah-palin-and-book-banning\/\"><strong>Jessamyn has the best overview<\/strong><\/a> of the Sarah Palin \/ Librarian debate that I have seen so far.\u00a0 The key to this, and to any other emotionally charged story, is to check your facts, and remember that everyone gets it wrong sometimes (so don&#8217;t be so sure about something even if you are sure).<\/p>\n<p>Unrelated, but soberingly relevant, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/09\/six-year-old-st.html\">United Airlines &#8220;bankruptcy&#8221; story<\/a> from a couple of days ago.\u00a0 The source seemed reliable, but the information was old.\u00a0 Again, some basic fact checking in the early stages of this would have saved a whole lot of grief.<\/p>\n<p>Update:\u00a0 This <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/10\/a-stock-killer-fueled-by-algorithm-after-algorithm\/index.html?ref=technology\">New York Times article<\/a> has a great overview of the UAL story&#8230; (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnews.org\/stock_killer_fueled_algorithm_after_algorithm\">LISNews<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessamyn has the best overview of the Sarah Palin \/ Librarian debate that I have seen so far.\u00a0 The key to this, and to any other emotionally charged story, is to check your facts, and remember that everyone gets it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/librarians-sarah-palin-and-fact-checking-oh-my.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2948,2959],"tags":[4023,4175,4251,3342,4024,4174,4022],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-news","category-politics","tag-bankruptcy","tag-fact-checking","tag-librarian","tag-new-york-times","tag-sarah-palin","tag-ual","tag-united-airlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-E0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}