The Columbia Journalism Review — which identifies itself as “both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms” — has endorsed FactCheck and PolitiFact as good online sites for verifying claims being made during the current debate over health care.

The Editors’…

An article in the Christian Science Monitor  reports that media truth squads are hard at work trying to gauge the accuracy of the presidential candidates’ campaigns claims.

To show how difficult that challenge is the article notes that:

“A recent Gallup poll…

Very Short List has an interesting piece today on the great divide between the way liberals and conservatives think. It asserts that truth follows party lines because people are wired that way.

Here’s a link to the short VSL article. This is the first…

An interesting article in today’s Washington Post (”As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They’re Undone”) examines many of the claims and counterclaims being made by the McCain and Obama camps.

(Post-Dispatch editors are preparing a clarification to run tomorrow…