Posts Tagged ‘spin’

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by Simon Owens, November 6, 2008
During the Republican National Convention, NOW, a PBS weekly TV news magazine, posted an unscientific poll on its website asking viewers to vote on whether they thought vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was qualified for the position. Like most polls the show posts every week, it was [...]

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By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 21, 2008 - 08:18PM CT

Let’s face it, even hardcore privacy mavens probably appreciate the Internet’s magical ability to determine who should see that listing for used Smiths LPs and who would be more receptive to a subscription pitch for Cat Fancy. But a new report from the [...]

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by Mark Glaser, September 24, 2008
As the U.S. elections near the finish line, the presidential campaigns are throwing around enough verbal attacks and inflammatory advertising to make the average voter’s head spin. Fortunately, there are now three excellent sources for fact-checking political discourse online: Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org, the St. Petersburg Times [...]

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By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA
Published: October 15, 2008
If you don’t trust the news media, what are your options? You can fume about bias, wonder what you’re missing and suppress the urge to throw things. Or ignore some sources and turn to those whose slant you like.
But what if there were a device that [...]

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by Michael Arrington on October 10, 2008

What has ex-Yahooer and Delicious founderJoshua Schachter been working on sinceleaving Yahoo last June? At least one project is a GreaseMonkey script that shows readers the political leanings of blogs and news sites on Memeorandum, a news aggregator.
Political sites are usually very biased, but the casual reader often doesn’t know which way [...]

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RealScoop Tells You When Politicians And Celebrities Are Lying

by Don Reisinger on September 28, 2008

Have you ever wanted to know when politicians are lying? A startup called RealScoop thinks it can nail it down for you in real-time with the help of voice analysis technology that it claims is used widely in [...]

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by Mark Glaser, 1:52PM

As the U.S. elections near the finish line, the presidential campaigns are throwing around enough verbal attacks and inflammatory advertising to make the average voter’s head spin. Fortunately, there are now three excellent sources for fact-checking political discourse online: Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org, the St. Petersburg Times and [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on September 23, 2008

Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they’ve given recently.
By default the site is presenting quotes from US Presidential candidates Barack [...]