Keeping Candidates Honest
By Pamela Gentry, Senior Political Producer
LOS ANGELES (Posted April 24, 2008) – I’m away from campaign coverage for a few days to attend The Knight Digital Media Center fellowship “Election ’08: Unleashing the Cyber-Watchdogs, hosted by the Knight Digital Media Center.
I’m here with some 20 journalist all who report for newspapers and Websites across the country.
Today is the first full day and I though my readers would be interested in one of the featured websites shared during this morning sessions. The St. Petersburg Time’s has a political fact checking section on their site.
The editor for this section of the south Florida newspaper takes comments from the presidential candidates and checks to see how accurate their comments really are. While some are easily designated “true or false” some are so outrageous they are rated “Pant’s on Fire.” Here’s the link if you would like to check it out!
