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Fact or Ficton: Two New Websites Gauge Accuracy of Campaign Info

New sites fact check politicians, journalists.

  • From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org has postings beginning on December 2, 2003 and “monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.”
  • On January 11, 2004 the Columbia Journalism Review launched a blog called the CJR Campaign Desk that scrutinizes the accuracy of reports by the networks, newspapers, magazines, blogs and Internet sources, written by a non-partisan staff.
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