[Air-l] factcheck.org

[Liss Jeffrey]

It has arrived, in part, in part.
You might look at the wikipedia, with its attendant pros and cons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/




At 12:10 PM 20/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>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
>
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>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
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>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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