A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion at the National Press Club where the heads of all of the major media ‘fact checking’ organizations participated. (I wrote about the event here.)

At that event, during the audience Q&A, a very earnest woman who identified herself as being from the League of Women Voters, stood up and asked what could be done to get fact checkers at the presidential debates. To their credit, the heads of PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post and AP ‘fact checkers’ all agreed that fact checking the candidates in real time was tricky and probably not a good idea.