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Daring departure for news organization
Feb. 2nd, 2009 09:39 amThey're actually committing to fact-checking information. A project of the St Petersburg Times in Tampa (I've no idea which way that publication leans). An interesting site:
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
Where, amongst other things, they have a list of 500 'promises' Obama made during the campaign. They plan to track how well he does with them. This is something I've often thought of doing - keeping notes about what the candidates I vote for said, and then matching them to performance. Never have the time to do it though.
The small amount of the site I've investigated so far seems to be reasonably balanced. I'll be checking back from time to time to see how Obama is doing on the Obameter!
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
Where, amongst other things, they have a list of 500 'promises' Obama made during the campaign. They plan to track how well he does with them. This is something I've often thought of doing - keeping notes about what the candidates I vote for said, and then matching them to performance. Never have the time to do it though.
The small amount of the site I've investigated so far seems to be reasonably balanced. I'll be checking back from time to time to see how Obama is doing on the Obameter!
