People use PolitiFacts like they’re gods because of their Pulitizers. Cronyism! MSNBC just used them against Michele Bachmann.
Here’s the real story from Mathew Vadum...
In May 2009, PolitiFact.com rated a statement published on the website of Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, that the organization ACORN “could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars”, as “false”, calling it “beyond preposterous” that they would receive this amount.[3] Conservative analyst Matthew Vadum, who was the original source of the assertion, defended his statement in The American Spectator, saying that he meant only that there were no legal impediments to ACORN receiving the money; he then called PolitiFact.com’s writings “political opinion masquerading as high-minded investigative journalism.”[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact
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The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2009 winners and finalists. —Richard Oppel, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator.
Allen, Danielle, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Amoss, Jim, editor, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA
Beck, Randell, president and publisher, Argus Leader Media, Sioux Falls, SD
Bennett, Amanda, executive editor/Enterprise, Bloomberg News
Bollinger, Lee C., president, Columbia University, New York, NY
Carroll, Kathleen, executive editor and senior vice president, Associated Press
Dehli, Joyce, vice president for news, Lee Enterprises
Friedman, Thomas L., columnist, The New York Times, New York, NY
Gigot, Paul, editorial page editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
Gissler, Sig, administrator, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY
Gyllenhaal, Anders, executive editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, FL
Harris, Jay T., Wallis Annenberg Chair, Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Kennedy, David M., Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Lemann, Nicholas, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY
Lipinski, Ann Marie, vice president for civic engagement, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Moore, Gregory L., editor, The Denver Post, Denver, CO
Oppel, Richard, former editor, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, TX
Tash, Paul C., editor, chairman and CEO, The St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL
Willey, Keven Ann, vice president/editorial page editor, The Dallas Morning News
http://www.pulitzer.org/board/2009—