corrections process, people can get in touch with us if they disagree with something we ve written, or if they think that we have got something wrong, we ll look at that and publish all those corrections on our website as well. ian, do we even need fact checkers? isn t this, in a way, thejob ofjournalists? i wonder what it says about this kind of growing distrust for journalists, the growing concerns about everybody having their own reality, their own truth? aren t journalist supposed to check their own facts? journalists should check their own facts, but as we know, journalists operate at very high pressure, very fast often, and make mistakes. everyone makes mistakes, and i think anything that adds to the armoury that allows people to check facts, allows the public to make up their own minds, that helps journalist find facts as well, is a good thing. we do live in an age of distrust and an age of lots of information coming at you from all sides and i think any reputable sources of inf
corrections process, people can get in touch with us if they disagree with something we ve written, or if they think that we have got something wrong, we ll look at that and publish all those corrections on our website as well. ian, do we even need fact checkers? isn t this, in a way, thejob ofjournalists? i wonder what it says about this kind of growing distrust for journalists, the growing concerns about everybody having their own reality, their own truth? aren t journalist supposed to check their own facts? journalists should check their own facts, but as we know, journalists operate at very high pressure, very fast often, and make mistakes. everyone makes mistakes, and i think anything that adds to the armoury that allows people to check facts, allows the public to make up their own minds, that helps journalist find facts as well, is a good thing. we do live in an age of distrust and an age of lots of information coming at you from all sides and i think any reputable sources of inf
of processes in place to try and ensure impartiality and exactly, make sure that there aren t the kind of biases that you re referring to, so that starts right from our recruitment process, we have strict rules on impartiality that our staff have to adhere to, cross party board of trustees that oversees the organisation. as i mentioned before, we make sure we are being transparent about who funds us, so that people can see that and we try and make sure that is from a wide range of sources to maintain our impartiality and independence and as well as that, we are very open to being challenged. we are human fact checkers, we get things wrong on occasion and so we make sure we have a transparent corrections process, people can get in touch with us if they disagree with something we ve written, or if they think that we have got something wrong, we ll look at that and publish all those corrections on our website as well. ian, do we even need fact checkers? isn t this, in a way, thejob ofjour