The 2008 elections... fact-checking websites
Right now you are hearing so much about the presidential elections that it can be information overload.
You’re hearing from your neighbors, the media and especially from the campaigns themselves. It is admittedly hard to filter the “facts” from the “spin.”
Here are four websites to help cut through the noise by analyzing candidate speeches, interviews, debates and TV ads and determine their accuracy.
FactCheck.org
“FactCheck.org“http://www.factcheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Among the center’s specialties is analysis and research in the field of political communication.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly. Congressional Quarterly has reported on Capital Hill since 1945 and has the largest news staff covering Congress.
From opposing viewpoints
Here are two more websites if you want analysis from a conservative and liberal viewpoint. These websites most often focus on the media coverage itself.
On the left you will find Media Matters for America. The not-for-profit is a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
On the right check out News Busters, which is a project of the Media Research Center which, according to its website is dedicated to “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”
What are your favorite sites?
What websites are you finding valuable in collecting information for this election? Let us know in the comments. If possible, tell us who creates the site and their political bent if any.
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