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Ever wonder about Sourcewatch.org?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:57 PM EDT
liberal, fake, us-news, wiki, opensource, disclaimer, sourcewatch-org, nothing-reviewed
By april-1023405
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For the past three months I have been seeing more and more people post links for information from Sourcewatch.org - claiming fact. Well if anyone ever would take the time to read the disclaimer they might learn that the site is anything but that, and that it of course - is very biased.

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:General_disclaimer

Read the disclaimer:

No formal peer review

Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by professionals with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information. That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in SourceWatch; much of the time you will. However, SourceWatch cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields. Our active community of editors uses tools such as the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, SourceWatch is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been included in links from the Center for Media and Democracy's website may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

None of the authors, contributors, sponsors, administrators, sysops, or anyone else connected with SourceWatch in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

And if you want to see who publishes sourcewatch.org:

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) publishes SourceWatch, this collaborative, specialized encyclopedia of the people, organizations, and issues shaping the public agenda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a liberal[1] nonprofit American-based media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber.

CMD has stated that it is not affiliated with a political party, but that it does not pretend to lack opinions or a point of view.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy

Criticism

ActivistCash.com, a website run by the Center for Consumer Freedom—itself the subject of much criticism and which the CMD describes as "a front group for the restaurant, alcohol and tobacco industries"[3]—describes the Center for Media and Democracy, the sponsor of SourceWatch, as "a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization... it is essentially a two-person operation"[4] run by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

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Reply#1 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:02 AM EDT
MoCowgirl-1193719

So "Sourcewatch.org" is for entertainment purposes only? Got it. Thanks, April.

It is difficult to find "unbiased" information from any source, but when there's a disclaimer on the actual site saying that the info may or may not be accurate...then I look for different sources.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in SourceWatch; much of the time you will. However, SourceWatch cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.

  • 6 votes
#1.1 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:33 AM EDT
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mtherof3

Thanks, April! Way to stay on top of this!!!

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Reply#2 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:29 AM EDT
lordcobalt

This is a wiki. You know, as in Wikipedia? It is an open-source site where anyone may add information, even conservative right-wingers. They're open minded enough to let even you contribute!

    Reply#3 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:07 PM EDT
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