Comments on: Save Spot: fact-checking Obamacare’s effect on pet care https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/03/13/save-spot-fact-checking-obamacares-effect-on-pet-care/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:19:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: mstem https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/03/13/save-spot-fact-checking-obamacares-effect-on-pet-care/#comment-6061 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:19:36 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=2392#comment-6061 Great find, Diane. This example has the sweet, sweet complexity of strong elements of truth despite being leveraged for overtly partisan usage. I think the sourcing of a story from a person hearing something from a single veterinarian and posting it to Facebook is the biggest hit to its credibility. But you do a nice job digging up the actual policies involved.

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