So, do they fact check cartoons at The New Yorker?
BS: No. I’m gong to say no because some of those captions are ridiculous. DB: I’m going to say no as well. PK: I gotta go no with this one but, again, Russel and Dylan would fact check a caption or a photo in heartbeat. I’m sorry to say you’re all wrong—they in fact do fact check the cartoons at The New Yorker. DB: Are you serious? Yes, if you are citing a company name in a caption or draw the White House, you better have the right number of pillars for the White House and have spelled the company name correctly. Last question, this is a piece of trivia: What famous American novel that was later made into a film starring Michael J. Fox had a… DB: Bright Lights, Big City—boom! That’s right! Bright Lights, Big City had a magazine fact checker as a main character. DB: A cocaine-addled fact checker at that. Correct … Is there anything you’ve learned about fact checking that we haven’t talked about? DB: What’s funny was that during the shoot I was at a friend’s house for dinner and there we
