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Ex-Washington Post fact-checker faces criticism over claims of 'straight' media coverage
fox news ^ | August 9, 2025 | Alexander Hall

Posted on 08/09/2025 2:02:23 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

One of the internet’s most famous fact-checkers, former Washington Post writer Glenn Kessler, was grilled by author and podcaster Mark Halperin on Friday over media bias.

The man behind The Washington Post's "Pinocchios" announced in late July he would be leaving the paper without anyone to fill his shoes. Kessler, who reportedly edited more than 3,000 fact checks as editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker, announced that week he had taken a buyout deal, ending his lengthy career at the Post.

"After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout," Kessler wrote on his Facebook page. "Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss."

With his career and the Washington Post’s recent record in the spotlight among many shakeups at the publication, Halperin raked Kessler over the coals on his "Next Up" podcast.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; glennkessler; jeffbezos; markhalperin; pinocchios; podcast; wapo; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
I used to work in a huge international company. The management sent out a note entitled "Straight Talk about" some internal policy. Employees started posting images like


1 posted on 08/09/2025 2:02:23 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: Eleutheria5

ping


2 posted on 08/09/2025 2:05:21 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Glenn Kessler, an unrepentant rouge maroon.

[He’s still a Commie, Jim....]


3 posted on 08/09/2025 2:06:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

AI fact checkers replaced him.


4 posted on 08/09/2025 2:07:10 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Paladin2

Seems he lost Bezos’s support for some strange reason.


5 posted on 08/09/2025 2:13:13 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Question: Is AI a wonderful new technology that will benefit mankind with no negative effects.

AI Fact Checker: True.

Lol.


6 posted on 08/09/2025 2:14:31 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

And AI is supposed to be unbiased :)


7 posted on 08/09/2025 2:15:24 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Captain Kirk: “Spock, tell me about the Washington Post.”
Spock and Bones in unison: It is dead Jim. It died in the election of 2024 and none to soon.”


8 posted on 08/09/2025 2:38:57 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Maybe he can go back to his old job.


9 posted on 08/09/2025 2:50:33 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

A better match for his talents. How does he do that without falling backwards?


10 posted on 08/09/2025 2:57:47 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Maybe his crown is full of hot air. :-)


11 posted on 08/09/2025 3:03:20 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

NOBODY beats him!


12 posted on 08/09/2025 3:23:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Larry Lucido; dfwgator

Bonds is on

Two out

(that’s how I remember the unnamed movie)


13 posted on 08/09/2025 3:24:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era...

Really? And what "era" would that be? Face it, this translates to "I enjoyed sticking it to Trump." But in an unbiased way, I'm sure.

14 posted on 08/09/2025 3:27:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SaveFerris

A Scottish man goes to his first baseball game.

He knows nothing about the game so when the first batter got walked, the Scotsman asked the fans next to him what happened.

“He got four balls, so he gets to go to first base freely,” to which the Scotsman stood, and clapping loudly, shouted “Walk proud, lad! Walk proud!”


15 posted on 08/09/2025 3:30:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yeah, for fact checking I’d really be comfortable having the fact checker on the staff of the Wash. Compost.


16 posted on 08/09/2025 3:58:36 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington...

LOLOL...stop it Kessler! You're killing me.

17 posted on 08/09/2025 5:01:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I love the dye job on his head. Like nobody can tell, lol.


18 posted on 08/09/2025 6:05:35 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Kessler thinks, or at least pretends to think, that Nicole Wallace is a “conservative.” He is not alone.


19 posted on 08/09/2025 9:02:01 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Bezos has indicated that he wants to move the paper away from communism and more in the direction of sanity (a decision which enraged many if not most of his employees), but I’m not sure if he does that it will even help much, as most of his dwindling number of paying subscribers won’t like that either.


20 posted on 08/14/2025 11:57:44 AM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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