For the aboriginal time, the award-winning Web site, PolitiFact.com, will adviser Barack Obama's attack promises. Using the new Obameter, the website will amount the promises and accommodate an up-to-the-minute address agenda on the Obama White House.
St. Petersburg, Fla. January 16, 2009 - PolitiFact.com, the fact-checking Web website created by the St. Petersburg Times, has launched an aberrant journalistic accomplishment to clue President-elect Barack Obama's attack promises and admeasurement the advance of his presidency.
Track 510 attack promises that Barack Obama fabricated while active for president.
With the Obameter and the improvements to our site, PolitiFact will abide to avant-garde new forms of political journalism Although we await on the new technology of the Web to broadcast our work, our mission charcoal a simple and acceptable one: to empower democracy 100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites. PolitiFact aggregate 510 attack promises for a new affection alleged the 'Obameter' that will be tracking the advance of the new president's agenda and accouterment readers with an up-to-the-minute address card.
"With the Obameter and the improvements to our site, PolitiFact will abide to avant-garde new forms of political journalism," said Bill Adair, Editor of PolitiFact.
PolitiFact writers will analysis the cachet of anniversary campaign promise and baddest a appraisement - No Action, In the Works or Stalled on the site's Obameter. Once they achieve that action has been completed, they will amount whether it was a Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
To appearance the complete database of promises, appointment http://politifact.com.
The award-winning Web website will aswell abide to use its Truth-O-Meter to fact-check statements and attacks in American politics, this time absorption on Washington. The website will analysis and amount claims by the Obama administration, associates of Congress, lobbyists, barter associations and humans who affirm afore Congress.
"Although we await on the new technology of the Web to broadcast our work, our mission charcoal a simple and acceptable one: to empower democracy," Adair added.
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PolitiFact.com was launched in August 2007 and has appear added than 750 Truth-O-Meter ratings on statements by the presidential candidates and others complex in the 2008 presidential campaign. It has accustomed abundant awards, including the National Press Foundation's 2008 Excellence in Online Journalism Award and was called one of PC World magazine's "100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites."
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PolitiFact.com
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