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Dan Rather praises PolitiFact and other efforts to fact-check political news, but he doesn’t think they reach a wide enough audience. “This is what every good newspaper, every television station, every network ought to be doing,” he tells Mallary Jean Tenore. But in so many cases — it’s not unanimous, there are some exceptions — but by and large, this is not what they do.”
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