CSPAN Q A December 29, 2014
That, to me, was a big shift. You saw a torrent of advertising, as a lot of it disconnected from the campaigns. Some of the campaigns, you ended up with more ads done by outside groups than by the candidates themselves. We talked three years ago and we went through the philosophy of the fact checker, which is online, anyone can watch. For those of you who dont know what you do, what is the fact checker . The Washington Post launched it in 2007. It was just for the 2008 campaign year. It was originally done by my colleague, michael dobbs, who writes history books now. In 2011, the Washington Po...