Anne Sinclair

Article summary

Anne Sinclair ( ; born Anne-Élise Schwartz; 15 July 1948) is a French-American television and radio interviewer. She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She is heiress to much of the fortune of her maternal grandfather, art dealer Paul Rosenberg. She covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal+. She married French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 1991 and divorced him in 2013 in the aftermath of the New York v. Strauss-Kahn case. She was portrayed in the 2014 feature film Welcome to New York.

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1948-07-15 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1948-07-15 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of birth: 1940 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 2014 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of birth is "1948-07-15". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the date of birth is "1948-07-15". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the date of birth is "1940". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the publication date is "2014". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
7. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366618032