Tag Archives: Sean Spicer

TV news highlights: visitor logs, voter turnout, China, North Korea, United Airlines

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl In this week’s look back at TV news highlights that have been fact-checked by our partners, we get a history of the White House policy on releasing visitor logs; a look at how 2016 voter turnout compared … Continue reading →

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From Spicer to wiretapping to Sweden: does TV news fuel political rhetoric?

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

Cross posted from MediaShift. A few hours after after Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, compared Syrian President Bashar Assad to Adolf Hitler, saying, “We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II…You had … someone as despicable as … Continue reading →

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TV News highlights: Hitler, Syria, NATO, and more

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl This week our round up of fact-checks of TV appearances by public officials includes: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s claim that Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons on his own people; how President Donald Trump’s strategy on Syrian airstrikes varies from … Continue reading →

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TV News highlights: stimulus package, global food demand, carbon emissions, and more

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl In this week’s TV News highlight reel, fact-checkers looked into claims about construction projects resulting from former President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, global food demand, carbon emissions, a state law that may seem counter to federal law … Continue reading →

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This week’s TV news highlights with fact checks

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Katie Dahl As part of a new regular feature, the Internet Archive presents highlights from our national fact checking partners of TV news segments aired over the past week. These include President Donald Trump’s assertion that the number of police officers … Continue reading →

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