{"id":6506,"date":"2011-02-15T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:15:49","slug":"politifact-wisconsin-its-truth-o-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6506","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Wisconsin&#8217;s Truth-O-Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/\">PolitiFact Wisconsin<\/a> is a partnership of the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/\">PolitiFact.com<\/a> [the national site], a Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site of the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em>, to help you find the truth in politics.<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; Reporters and research staff from the newspapers and the publisher Congressional Quarterly research claims made by candidates, elected officials, political parties, interest groups, pundits, &amp; talk show hosts, and then rate their truthfulness. Click the names of the people making claims for more information about them and other claims they&#8217;ve made that have been evaluated. You also can browse investigated claims by topic. I strongly suggest that you read the justification for the ratings and make your own judgments, however. A couple of times the research provided actually has convinced me to disagree with the &#8220;Truth-O-Meter&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of claims rated:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/statements\/2010\/dec\/12\/bryan-kennedy\/union-leader-says-wisconsin-state-employees-earn-a\/\">State employees in Wisconsin earn &#8220;about 8 percent less&#8221; than if they worked in the private sector.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/statements\/2011\/feb\/08\/scott-walker\/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-says-state-employees-co\/\">Most state employees could pay twice as much toward their health care premiums and it would still be half the national average.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/statements\/2011\/feb\/02\/scott-walker\/gov-scott-walker-says-surveys-repeatedly-showed-bu\/\">Wisconsin employers have repeatedly said in surveys that our anti-business litigation climate is one of the most important factors affecting their expansion decisions.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;PolitiFact Wisconsin is a partnership of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and PolitiFact.com [the national site], a Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site of the St. Petersburg Times, to help you find the truth in politics.&#8221; Reporters and research staff from the newspapers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2768],"tags":[7092,120,209,658,311],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-around-wisconsin","tag-factchecking","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-web-sites","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}