“We don’t expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers. The minute the TV is off, there are going to be plenty of fact checkers in every newspaper and every television station in the world. Sign up for our politics newsletterSome media pundits have called on TV networks to impose their own fact-checks in real-time, through onscreen graphics, clarifying captions or cutaways to reporters offering context. That interventionist approach is less likely to occur on Tuesday, according to executives and producers at several TV networks. CNN’s in-house Trump fact checker, Daniel Dale, will be featured in the network’s coverage.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2020 12:32 UTC