[Air-l] factcheck.org

[Christian Nelson]

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