{"id":5496,"date":"2024-09-11T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2024-09-11T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:21:22","slug":"survey-moderators-should-point-out-factual-errors-in-real-time-on-eve-of-presidential-debate-americans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2024\/09\/11\/survey-moderators-should-point-out-factual-errors-in-real-time-on-eve-of-presidential-debate-americans-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Moderators Should Point Out Factual Errors in Real Time on Eve of Presidential Debate, Americans say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the first of two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, more than two out of three Americans say moderators should point out factual inaccuracies in candidates\u2019 comments during the debate, according to a new Media &#038; Technology Survey from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication, out today.<\/p>\n<p>Support for fact-checking in real time is stronger among Democrats (81% agree or strongly agree) than Republicans (67%), the survey finds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupport for moderators pointing out errors is bipartisan and relatively high across the board,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/tammy-r-vigil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Vigil, PhD.<\/a>, senior associate dean and associate professor, media science, at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication. \u201cStill, the results imply that Democrats either may value verifiable information more than the Republican counterparts, or that they think live fact checking would significantly benefit their candidate or harm the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/moderators-should-point-out-factual-errors-in-real-time-americans-say-in-poll-on-eve-of-presidential-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass On the eve of the first of two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, more than two out of three Americans say moderators should point out factual inaccuracies in candidates\u2019 comments during the debate, according to a new Media &#038; Technology Survey from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication, out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}