Quantifying the value of fact checking
The Canadian Magazines blog took note of the editor’s letter in a recent issue of Reader’s Digest Canada. That’s because editor-in-chief Robert Goyette took time to lay out some numbers that communicate the value of the magazine’s fact checking department:
“In this issue, for example, they checked approximately 9,000 facts, consulting 458 sources (including experts and people quoted) and corrected 312 factual errors”
For more on the value of fact checking, I suggest watching these videos of a speech given by Peter Canby of the New Yorker.
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