{"id":12302,"date":"2014-11-03T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=12302"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:11:26","slug":"media-politics-ad-watch-columns-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/media-politics-ad-watch-columns-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Media and Politics: Ad Watch Columns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><b>AdWatch (Fact checking the candidates)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>History: \u00a0At CNN, Brooks Jackson\u00a0pioneered the \u201cadwatch\u201d and \u201cfactcheck\u201d form of stories debunking false and misleading political statements, starting with the presidential election of 1992. \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org\/people\/Brooks-Jackson\/\">Source<\/a>) \u00a0Since that time, other organizations, as well as the media themselves (TV, radio, newspapers) have started their own fact-checking. \u00a0Listed below are some of the fact check organizations we recommend you and your students use for study and research.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 36px;\" width=\"532\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 126.193px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/7b003bdf308ce6b7e95b691b3a43d537\/tumblr_mr5wkmmo7H1sso926o1_400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 126.193px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Politifact_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Politifact_logo.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Politifact_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Politifact_logo-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Politifact_logo-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 126.193px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/graphics\/headers\/fact-checker-kessler.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 127.102px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/presidential-campaign-ads\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17584 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nyt-ad-campaign.png\" alt=\"nyt ad campaign\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<table style=\"height: 104px;\" width=\"836\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Throughout the upcoming political ad and speech season, check these websites for claims made by candidates or their spokespeople. \u00a0Educators: be sure to check out<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flackcheck.org\/\">FLACKCHECK.ORG<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>a companion website to FactCheck. It\u00a0&#8220;provides resources to help students\u00a0recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>See also American Press Institute&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpressinstitute.org\/training-tools\/fact-checking-resource\/\">Fact-Checking Project<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AdWatch (Fact checking the candidates) &nbsp; History: &nbsp;At CNN, Brooks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media-and-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38745,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/38745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}