I love the premise of Meet the Facts, a project run by students that provides a great model for ecitizenship efforts. For those not familiar with the project, there’s a simple premise:
Identify the major assertions made on Meet the Press (both by the host and the guests) each Sunday.
Fact-check them.
Publish the results of the fact-check on a blog.
Whoa! Pretty radical idea, right?
You have to be involved in politics for about two minutes before you realize that the scope of what is possible in public policy is largely determined by the press narrative, and that narrative often plays fast and loose with facts.
You can’t have a functioning democracy with a dysfunctional press. And what Meet the Facts realizes is that the net-enabled citizen has...
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