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- John Boehner’s F-Bomb at Harry Reid Plunges D.C. Civility to New Low (The Daily Beast, Jan. 3, 2013)
- Do super PACS have a right to lie? (Columbia Journalism Review, Dec. 17, 2012)
- Closer look at a cash cow (Columbia Journalism Review, Nov. 26, 2012)
- 2012 Election Day Live-Stream on Social Media + Politics (PBS MediaShift, Nov. 5, 2012)
- 20 Educational Web Tools For Young Voters (Edudemic, Nov. 4, 2012)
- ‘Dark money’ has long reach in 2012 (Daily Hampshire Gazette, Nov. 2, 2012)
- Fact-Checking Done Right (NPR's On The Media, Oct. 19, 2012)
- Denver newsrooms tops in fact-checking (Denver Post, Oct. 14, 2012)
- Essential tweeters to follow for VP debate (The Hill, Oct. 11, 2012)
- Does the Election Make You Want to Be Sedated? (EverydayHealth.com, Oct. 11, 2012)
- Make sense of the presidential campaign with these informative websites (The Post-Standard, Oct. 10, 2012)
- Follow candidates with YouTube election hub (Standard-Examiner, Oct. 6, 2012)
- Presidential Debate Fact-Checked: Obama And Romney Said What? MTV's Power of 12 and FlackCheck.org teamed up to keep the candidates honest — in real time. (MTV.com, Oct. 3, 2012)
- Deception and Distraction in the 2012 Presidential Campaign (Minnesota Public Radio, Oct. 3)
- Here's Where To Get Your 'Fact Checks' During And After Tonight's Debate (NPR.org, Oct. 3, 2012)
- Fresh Ways to Follow the Presidential Debates (TechNewsDaily, Oct. 3, 2012)
- How to Watch a Presidential Debate (BillMoyers.com, Oct. 3, 2012)
- Blue Truth, Red Truth (Time magazine's Swampland blog, Oct. 3, 2012)
- Ordinary Lies, Damn Lies and the Debates (The New York Times, Oct. 1, 2012)
- Attack-Ad Fact-Check (KESQ.com, Oct. 1, 2012)
- 5 Ways to Stay Out of the Presidential Debate Spin Cycle (AARP Blog, Oct. 1, 2012)
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Political Debates and Deceptions (Moyers & Company, Sept. 28, 2012)
- Annenberg Public Policy Center: Role of Journalism in Fact Checking (C-SPAN, Sept. 26, 2012)
- MTV: Obama atop Fantasy Election (Politico, Sept. 26, 2012)
- TV stations show no sign they'll stop airing two anti-King ads (Kennebec Journal, Sept. 25, 2012)
- 'My Vote Doesn't Matter' (Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 25, 2012)
- Five-Minute Film Festival: Remixing Civics (Edutopia, Sept. 21, 2012)
- TV stations benefit from attack ads (The News-Gazette [Central Illinois], Sept. 19, 2012)
- Group asks TV stations to reject deceptive political ads (The Gazette [Cedar Rapids, Iowa], Sept. 17, 2012)
- Iowa broadcasters urged to demand accuracy (Sioux City Journal, Sept. 17, 2012)
- A laurel to FlackCheck.org: For its new guide to video factchecking on air and online (Columbia Journalism Review, Sept. 14, 2012)
- Campaign Civility IS Possible (AARP Bulletin, Sept. 5, 2012)
- Campaign 2012 Online (The Bismarck Tribune, Sept. 2, 2012)
- Do political ads influence your vote? (NewsWorks, Aug. 24, 2012)
- The Presidential Ad Season Begins in Earnest (NPR’s On The Media, Aug. 17, 2012)
- Stand Up To Political Attack Ads (Honolulu Civil Beat, Aug. 17, 2012)
- Negative Campaign Rhetoric Reaches a New Low (The Takeaway, Aug. 16, 2012)
- What Aloha Spirit? It's Election Season (Honolulu Civil Beat, Aug. 9, 2012)
- Context takes a holiday: U.S. campaign feeds off misleading claims (Reuters, Aug. 6, 2012)
- TV Stations Charge ’Super-Gouge’ Ad Rates for Super-PACS (Bloomberg, July 26, 2012)
- Students say political ads do more harm than good (USA TODAY College, July 12, 2012)
- Expert says misleading ads on the way in presidential season (WHYY, July 11, 2012)
- Observers: Obama attacks on outsourcing inaccurate, but effective (The Des Moines Register, July 10, 2012)
- Op-Ed: Now's The Time For A Candid Candidate (NPR’s Talk of the Nation, July 9, 2012)
- Could a truly honest politician become president? (The Washington Post, July 6, 2012)
- GUEST COMMENTARY: "Stand By Your Ad" campaign seeks truth in political advertising (The Missourian, June 27, 2012)
- Another recommended LAT read on campaign finance (Columbia Journalism Review, June 26, 2012)
- Today’s fun link: Modernizing the race of 1864 (The Spokesman-Review, June 25, 2012)
- Attacking Honest Abe (The Leader-Telegram, June 22, 2012)
- Vast Majority of Attack Ads Include False Claims (ABC News' "The Note" blog, June 22, 2012)
- Who can voters believe? (Baraboo News Republic, June 21, 2012)
- Vast Majority Of Secret Money In Presidential Race Spreads Misinformation: Report (The Huffington Post, June 20, 2012)
- Hollywood Exclaims: Stop Mistreating Deceptive Politicians! (The Huffington Post, June 18, 2012)
- SPIN METER: Candidates trade misquoting charges (Associated Press, June 18, 2012)
- Could Lincoln Be Elected Today? (Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, June 15, 2012)
- Obama, Romney give dueling speeches on economy (CNN, June 14, 2012)
- FlackChecking Political Sleaze (The 2012 Personal Democracy Forum, June 12, 2012)
- Welcome to the 'Out of Context' campaign (CNN, June 12, 2012)
- Tech activists skip presidential race – Markey, Conyers not sold on VZ-cable deal – FCC delivers broadband bailout – The flackcheck movement (Politico, June 12, 2012)
- Be a Super PAC Watchdog: You can do something about misleading political advertising (AARP Bulletin, June 6, 2012)
- Political advertising: influencing business, not just politics (Medill Reports, June 5, 2012)
- Talk About Social Security, Medicare: Learn how you can spot misleading political ads (AARP Bulletin, June 1, 2012)
- Many stations don’t factcheck super PAC ads: survey (Columbia Journalism Review, May 24, 2012)
- Obama, Romney and Presidential Messaging (KCRW, May 24, 2012)
- We Need More Reporting Like This (Radio-Television Digital News Association, May 23, 2012)
- Attack ads start early for presidential election (Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 2012)
- A Look at Fact Checking in the 2012 Election (C-SPAN, May 22, 2012)
- Web Extra: Kathleen Hall Jamieson Dissects Campaign Ads (Moyers & Company, May 17, 2012)
- Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes (Moyers & Company, May 11, 2012)
- Melissa Harris-Perry: Truths, truthiness, and falsehoods (MSNBC, May 6, 2012)
- Deception! Pro-Romney super PAC spent $20 million on deceptive ads in primary (The San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 2012)
- Super PAC Attack Ads Paved Way For Explosion in Independent Group Spending In Presidential Primaries (The Huffington Post, April 30, 2012)
- Fact checking group accuses Romney super PAC of spending $20 million on deceptive ads (Sunlight Foundation, April 30, 2012)
- 2012 Republican Primary Candidates, Super PACs Scrub Attack Ads From YouTube (The Huffington Post, April 26, 2012)
- The latest Super PAC attack against Mitt Romney (The Washington Post, April 25, 2012)
- Court overturns federal statute banning political ads in public media (KPCC Radio, April 13, 2012)
- Video of the Day: President Lincoln, Stop the War on Men! (The Atlantic, April 13, 2012)
- Nikki Haley: A Casualty of the Media's Casual Relationship to Truth (The Huffington Post, April 11, 2012)
- ‘Obamacare’ or the GOP: Which would throw granny off a cliff? (The Washington Post, April 11, 2012)
- Keeping an eye on political ads, lies (The Eastern Iowa Gazette, April 7, 2012)
- Insights and Outbursts: Shining the light on campaign ads (Gloucester Times, April 6, 2012)
- As TV Biz Resists Disclosure of Super PAC Ads, ProPublica Turns to Crowdsourcing (PBS.org, April 3, 2012)
- Take Action: Stand By Your Ad (BillMoyers.com, March 30, 2012)
- Doing something about truthiness in politics and news (The San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, 2012)
- Broadcasters Push Back on FCC Plan to Post Names of Political Ad Buyers Online (BillMoyers.com, March 20, 2012)
- Should broadcasters keep political attack ads honest? (CBC/Radio-Canada, March 19, 2012)
- SuperPACs yield never-ending story (The Sun Chronicle, March 16, 2012)
- INSTITUTE INDEX: The backlash against big-money politics (The Institute for Southern Studies, March 16, 2012)
- A way to fight Super PAC slime (NewsWorks, March 12, 2012)
- Are we less civil? And what does that mean? (Herald-Review.com, March 10, 2012)
- Stand By Your Ad (NPR's On The Media, March 9, 2012)
- Get Ready For The Attack Of The Attack Ads (TVNewsCheck, March 9, 2012)
- In Ohio, a Spotlight on Super PAC Ads (Columbia Journalism Review, March 8, 2012)
- Ohio Voters on the Super Tuesday Ad Push (The Takeaway, March 6, 2012)
- Abe Lincoln is a Filthy Traitor! (History News Network, March 5, 2012)
- The etiquette gap: From Newt and Mitt to Facebook and texting (The Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 2012)
- We Know How to Spell Relief (The New York Times, March 3, 2012)
- Are we less civil? And what does that mean? (The Akron Beacon Journal, March 3, 2012)
- Media Minutes for March 2: FlackCheck.org (Free Press, March 2, 2012)
- Do SuperPAC ads pass the truth test? (WVLT-TV Knoxville, Feb. 29, 2012)
- 'Stand By Your Ad' Helps Fight Deception in Super PAC Political Advertising (Radio-Television Digital News Association, Feb. 27)
- Truth in political advertising (The Los Angeles Times, Feb. 26, 2012)
- 2012 Political TV: Ads, Lies And Videotape (NPR's All Things Considered, Feb. 24, 2012)
- Stand up for truth in political advertising (The Charlotte Observer, Feb. 23, 2012)
- Annenberg Cuts Lincoln Some Flack (Under the Button, Feb. 22, 2012)
- Annenberg's 'FlackCheck' attacks deceptive political ads (The Daily Pennsylvanian, Feb. 21, 2012)
- Fact-Checking Group Launches Web Video Campaign To Discourage Flood of Deceptive SuperPAC Ads (Personal Democracy Forum, Feb. 21, 2012)
- Craig Newmark: Is This a Real Big Step Toward Holding Politicians Accountable? (The Huffington Post, Feb. 21, 2012)
- Political Attack Ads and the 2012 Presidential Race (The Diane Rehm Show, Feb. 20, 2012)
- Demand the truth, or put up with lies (The Charlotte Observer, Feb. 19, 2012)
- TV Stations for Truth (The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2012)
- Decoding the Campaigns (Moyers & Company, Feb. 17, 2012)
- FlackCheck.org leverages the Web to tell stations: Check third-party ad facts (The Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2012)
- Flackcheck.org uses humor to test the truth of political ads (Penn Current, Feb. 16, 2012)
- Ari Berman: The Politics of the Super Rich (OpEdNews.com, Feb. 16, 2012)
- Republicans Duke It Out with Attack Ads (The Takeaway, Feb. 16, 2012)
- Professor mounts campaign against inaccurate 'super PAC' ads (Chicago Tribune, Feb. 15, 2012)
- How to tame super PAC ads (CNN, Jan. 29, 2012)
- Obama and incivility: A presidential tradition (USA Today, Jan. 26, 2012)
- New Fact Check Site FlackCheck Checks Political Ads, Journalism (iMediaEthics, Jan. 24, 2012)
- Stephen Colbert is not running for president, but he does want to school you (BlogPost, The Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2012)
- The Rise of the Super PAC (The Takeaway, Jan. 10, 2012)
- Satire: Campaign 2012's Secret Weapon (The Huffington Post, Jan. 10, 2012)
- Political advertising strategy in New Hampshire (Minnesota Public Radio, Jan. 10, 2012)
- FlackCheck: Separating facts from political malarkey (Marketplace, American Public Media, Jan. 5, 2012)
- New web site uses humor to fact check political ads and political journalism (The Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2012)
- Media Monitor segment (CNN's Reliable Sources, Jan. 1, 2012)
- Please Watch the Debates (NPR’s On The Media, Dec. 9, 2011)
- Revisiting Romney’s ‘deceitful, dishonest’ ad about Obama (The Washington Post, Dec. 6, 2011)
- Sherrod Brown's fake beard now worn by CEO of Chamber of Commerce (Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 6, 2011)
- Fact-checking the Chamber of Commerce (Politifact.com, Dec. 6, 2011)
- The Political Ads from the 2012 Race (The Takeaway, Nov. 29, 2011)
- Online Ads: Spreading Your Message, On a Budget (NPR’s All Things Considered, Nov. 22, 2011)
- How to Hit a Woman (Slate.com, Nov. 22, 2011)
- Annenberg Center Aims To Fight Deceptive Viral Political Videos With Humor (Personal Democracy Forum, Nov. 18, 2011)
- Looking for the truth in 2012 campaign advertising (Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 10, 2011)
- FlackCheck.org: using comedy to combat lies in politics (WHYY, Nov. 9, 2011)
- Political Fact Checking That Doesn't Amplify the Lie (Miller-McCune, Nov. 8, 2011)
- FlackCheck.org to use humor in tracking political rhetoric (The Washington Post, Nov. 8, 2011)
- The Daily Rundown: FlackCheck.org Aims to Use Video to Engage and Teach Viewers (MSNBC, Nov. 7, 2011)
- New Website Aims to Fact Check Campaign Ads (ABC, Nov. 2, 2011)