Fact Finesser Prints

"Nothing wrong with half-truths...you still have 50% to manipulate."

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Reporter #6: television.

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

The Expert

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

'Did you know there's a river in Brazil named after Amazon?'

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

Rumours Online

Sportswasher's

"Are these 'raw' facts or 'spun' facts?"

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

"Facts are good, but we need all the rumors, gossip, and speculation to fully understand the situation."

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

'There are facts,there are factoids, and there are just plain fun facts.'

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

"Oops! Sorry, I gave you the net figures not the gross figures."

"So ants can lift twenty times their body weight. Big deal. Who can't?"

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

Conspiracy theories

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'

You Can't Argue With The Facts!

"Stop fact checking my story."

Lemme ask you something: Do you care about the quality of information you get? How's you mean? You want professional journalists covering events? If so, you've got to pay them. Bloggers sitting in their jammies at home can't get you the facts from Istanbul. You look extremely bored. You've got a weird hangup with facts.

"Do you have a few unsubstantiated claims I can borrow?"