US-Präsidentschaftswahlkampf unter der Lupe - Zwei Webseiten für eine Trennung von Fakten und Fiktion: "The Campaign Desk" und "FactCheck"

For the next eleven months, no matter how much you may wish for relief, it will be virtually impossible to escape politics. Ad campaigns - and budgets - that make Madison Avenue green with joy. Candidates trying to get interviewed by anyone with a microphone (the only time they'll be this accessible). Local and national news coverage in every medium from network television to one-man weblogs.

And though this may come as a shock, some of the information disseminated during this period may not be entirely accurate. Purely accidental of course - politicians would never aim to mislead or deceive, and wouldn't want us to vote for them if they did (I hope you appreciate that I'm keeping a straight face as I type this) - but there is such a thing as healthy skepticism, and this week's websites will help you to separate fact from fiction during the campaigns of '04.

The Campaign Desk: Critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage from Columbia Journalism Review: http://campaigndesk.org/

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FactCheck: Anneberg Political Fact Check (ein Projekt des Anneberg Pubilc Policy Center / University of Pennsylviana )

[Via: csmonitor.com ]