Margaret Sullivan

By Margaret Sullivan  Media columnist August 29, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Daniel Dale met President Trump’s convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looking slightly stunned. The cable network’s resident fact-checker motored through at least 21 falsehoods and misstatements he had found…

Read More Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless.