The Impact botches story about Kingston, Nora Davis and Oak Park | Columnists
Today, with so much talk about “fake news” and “misinformation,” it behooves readers not — prima facie — to take for granted what is printed or otherwise disseminated for public consumption as “facts.” News and information should be “fact-checked.” It is the practice of examining, assessing and analyzing factual assertions in nonfictional text in order to determine the veracity of what is supposed to be truthful statements in the text. Use a little skepticism, “Believe nothing you hear and half of that you see!”
In order to fact check, one must exercise curiosity, doubt, reasoning, logic, empiricism, rationality and common sense, coupled with the use of authentic, bonafide history and documentation on the subject. That is using verifiable evidence stored in reputable chronicles, annals, film, books, programmable electronic devices and other authentic means by which truth and facts are stored for safe, future retrieval and acquisition.
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