It is a challenge to get "just the facts" with "watchdog" groups proclaiming their independent thought yet they are in place to hammer home their set of "facts" as their pundits want to see them. Remember the old truism If it's on TV, it must be true? That transferred easily to The Internet, and too few people know how to look into the source of the information they cut and paste or link to.

For example, Accuracy In Media, the first result when searching on "accuracy of news on web sites" has SEO activity to place itself at the top, but is in fact a very conservative lunatic fringe organization.

I would love to see more schools and libraries teach students, early on, to evaluate the content and intent of sites that give themselves benign names from behind which they lob their stinker stories into the media playing field. I'm not saying they should be there, I'm saying more people should recognize them for what they are.

SRS