Truth Telling in the Media and the Fall Elections
Authors
Published Date
Publisher
Type
Abstract
Description
Kathleen Hall Jamieson from the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks with Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org and Bill Adair of PolitiFact.com about the impact their organizations' fact-checking has had on politics and the 2008 Elections in particular. The panel expresses particular concern about the prominence of e-mail chain letters in influencing public opinion; in particular, the widely-circulated rumors that Barack Obama is a "secret Muslim" or "the Antichrist" are especially troubling to these political referees because they are nearly impossible to track back to their origins. For further highlights on this panel, read the live blog.
PANELISTS
Bill Adair, Washington Bureau Chief, St. Petersburg Times and Editor, PolitiFact
Brooks Jackson, Director, Annenberg Political Fact Check
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Related to
item.page.replaces
License
Collections
Series/Report Number
Funding Information
item.page.isbn
DOI identifier
Previously Published Citation
Other identifiers
Suggested Citation
Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2008). Truth Telling in the Media and the Fall Elections. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216275.
Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.