Fact-checking the candidates

Media coverage of the GOP primaries is being criticized as too much about campaign strategy and not enough about the vetting candidates' policy ideas. Shouldn't the press be asking the hard questions and fact checking instead of documenting the elbow jabs between candidates?

Guests

• Brendan Nyhan: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dartmouth College.

Resources

• About Brendan Nyhan
• Brendan Nyhan: "Fact-checking Versus Strategy"
• Greg Marx: "In Defense of (the Right Kind of) Horse Race Journalism"