{"id":3310,"date":"2012-10-29T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2012-10-29T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:22:36","slug":"get-your-facts-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/get-your-facts-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Facts Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/10\/greencheck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3312\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/10\/greencheck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>A lot has been said about fact checking this election season.\u00a0 In fact, I wrote a post about fact checking that appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jane-carlin-and-barb-macke\/we-like-the-fact-checkers_b_1871789.html\">on the Huffington Post<\/a> earlier this semester.\u00a0 Do you share my frustration that so many political ads seems to manipulate information?\u00a0 Are you concerned about getting the facts straight?\u00a0 Here are a few sources you can check out to help sort out the facts!\u00a0 And don&#8217;t forget &#8211; your vote counts!<a href=\"FactCheck.org\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/\">FactCheck.org<\/a> is operated by the University of Pennsylvania and provides analysis of claims made by politicians and other newsmakers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/\">PolitiFact.com<\/a> run by the Tampa Bay Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for its &#8220;Truth-O-Meter&#8221; ratings of politicians&#8217; claims.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\">WashingtonPost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker<\/a> this site awards <em>Pinocchios <\/em>for political falsehoods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.seattletimes.com\/story\/today\/2019542702\/track-ip_news_lite-1.2.2-.\/\">Seattle library fact check experiment<\/a> risky, but valuable.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Jane Carlin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has been said about fact checking this election season.\u00a0 In fact, I wrote a post about fact checking that appeared on the Huffington Post earlier this semester.\u00a0 Do you share my frustration that so many political ads seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/get-your-facts-straight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}