[Air-l] factcheck.org

[Michael Gurstein]

It does look interesting, but I think the real power of the net would
come (wait for it, it will come...) when rather than have one person
attempt to do the "fact checking", the ads/claims are packaged in such a
way that they are thrown open to the whole world for fact checking
(somebody more adept at working with RSS feeds than myself could
probably devise the input on this in a few hours).

Then one would have 24/7, thousands of eyeballs from every walk and
every corner checking the statements/mis-statements as they roll out... 

A Slashdot for the world!

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org] On Behalf Of
Christian Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:04 AM
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Subject: [Air-l] factcheck.org


I just recently became aware of factcheck.org (at www.factcheck.org)--a 
project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which is housed at the 
Univ. of Pennsylvania and funded by the Annenberg Foundation. It's 
headed by Brooks Jackson, who created the "adwatch" and "fact check" 
series for CNN. Like Jackson's CNN projects, factcheck.org is devoted to

publishing research about the accuracy of political claims on their web 
site. (They also have an email service that sends their reports out when

completed.) As far as I can tell, this is something new on the Internet,

that could really only happen with the Internet. Clearly, this project 
couldn't get off the ground if it had go to teh expense of distributing 
its product like a newspaper. And it seems differenet than other 
Internet political sites, in that it strives to be independent and is 
independently funded. Am I right about its uniqueness? --Christian
Nelson



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