Archive for 'fact-checking'
Videolyzing Pharmaceutical Ads
There are just two countries in the world where Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising is allowed for pharmaceuticals: the US and New Zealand. The ostensible motivation? To educate consumers, to raise awareness of medical conditions, to get people talking to their doctors, or to reduce the stigma associated with certain conditions (e.g. Viagra)
Since the laws changed back [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under advertising, annotation, fact-checking, information quality, journalism, pharmaceutical, video annotation.
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Fact Checking Source Contextualization
I ran across this round-up of some of the most prominent Political Fact Checking sites online including non-partisan FactCheck, Politifact, and Washington Post Fact Checker Blog, as well as the partisan counter-parts: Newsbusters and MediaMatters. One of my criticisms of such sites is that oftentimes the fact-checking is decontextualized from the orginal document, especially for [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under annotation, computational journalism, fact-checking, interfaces.
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