Continuing on the trend of educating the public about spin I wrote about earlier in regards to the Centre for Media and Democracy, I found this website called FactCheck.org.
The website relates to spin in that it works to catch any mis-communications or outright lies from politicians in America.
It is actually a very established website with the editors, writers and contributors mostly being PHD's, MA's, with impressive work experience.
I really like this website for the way it discusses and examines different issues.
For example a post entitled 'Highlighting Health Care' discusses the current debate on US Health Care Reform. It starts with a summary of the issue, followed by an analysis of the ads currently being shown, and reports readers can look into, ending with sources and related articles.
This touches on what I have already discussed , but websites like this are really needed and serve an important purpose. They help the public get information they should be getting from their elected officials and alert them to 'spin' which is misinforming them about important issues.
I salute all such initiatives.
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