Legal Insurrection blogger William Jacobsen has written before about the St. Petersburg Times' PolitiFact bias. He has more.
MY VIEW: You can judge for yourself at PolitiFact. Having visited Wisconsin newspapers in the last month, I see the "Truth-0-meter" often. In that newspaper an in others where I have encountered it, the quick "Facts" often turn out to be nothing more than cover for the subscribing newspaper to flog to try to convince their readers without the inconvenience of having to defend or the cost of having investigate the issue themselves.
But, as in all things, make up your own mind.
The St. Petersburg Times also runs the Poynter Institute to "train" journalists.
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