Fact checking
There is a lot of inflamatory, unsubstantiated rhetoric out there. Here are some great sites to help get the facts to share with friends, neighbors and enemies.
- Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Since 1994, the Annenberg Public Policy Center had conducted an ongoing evaluation of the quality of contemporary political discourse, including political campaigns, advertising and speeches. Each election year, the Center assesses the quality of information available to the electorate.
- Center for American Progress Fact Checker
- Good site. Can be searched by pre-set list of issues.
- Cook Political Report
- Non-partisan.
- FactCheck.org
- Resource to verify accuracy in the news.
- fair.org
- Fairness and accuracy in the media.
- Freedom Forum
- The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three main priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment freedoms and newsroom diversity.
- Issue Ads @ APPC
- This is an online study of legislative print and television issue advertising inside the Capital Beltway.
- Media Matters
- Media Matters for America has put in place a system to monitor the media for conservative misinformation—every day, in real time—in 2004 and beyond.