News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo [I started this long ago, and never got very far.--DC] There's a lot of misinformation and disinformation going around. These websites provide a place to check the accuracy of dubious claims. I would welcome suggested additions to the list. Of course, one should read these websites with appropriate skepticism, as well. ConWebWatch Conservative website watchdog. http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/ Editor and Publisher Media news and watchdog. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp FactCheck: Annenberg Political Fact Check Checks political ads and other political claims for factual accuracy. http://www.factcheck.org/ FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Media) Media watchdog. http://www.fair.org/whats-new.html How to Identify Misinformation Some comic relief from the Bush administration, including its own good wallop of misinformation. By coincidence, all of the websites "known for spreading false stories" listed are highly critical of the Bush administration. http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html Media Matters for America Media watchdog. Highly recommended. http://mediamatters.org/ NewsHounds FOX News watchdog. http://www.newshounds.us/ PolitiFact Political fact checker. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ PRWatch http://www.prwatch.org/ Snopes Urband legends, Internet rumors, etc. http://snopes.com STATS (Statistical *****sment Service) Critiques media re****ting of science and statistical information. http://www.stats.org/index.htm The Straight Dope http://www.straightdope.com/ talk.origins Archive Creationism and Intelligent Design http://www.talkorigins.org/ -- Dan Clore My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_: http://tinyurl.com/3akhhr Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page: http://www.geocities.com/clorebeast/ News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind. -- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
