Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 26 (PolitiFact.com, St. Petersburg Times © 2009)
Barack Obama’s pre-election promise involving the implementation of the women-owned business contracting program has not been addressed since Obama has been President of the United States.
Topic: Should the new administration offer incentives for investing in women-owned businesses?
Category: Journalistic Image
What is it? An image from PolitiFact.com of Barack Obama’s head next to a meter that says ” No Action.” The meter is referred to as the Obameter or Truth-0-Meter.
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Author: No author is attributed as to the creation of the image.
Accessed: March 3rd, 2009. 17:30 PST
Support:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s Plan for Small Businesses- A pdf document which details the plan developed by the Obama administration concerning small businesses.
St. Petersburg Times- Reporters and editors from the Times fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups and rate them on our Truth-O-Meter.
The reporters and editors of the St. Petersburg Times examine press material and current events concerning the Obama administration and compare them to the agenda detailed on BarackObama.com.
Audience and Agenda: PolitiFact.com is a project of the St. Petersburg Times. Reporters and editors from the publication have compiled a database of more than 500 individual promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign. They research and rate their status as No Action, Stalled or In the Works and then ultimately determine whether it earns a Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken. According to Quantcast.com, PolitiFact.com is a site which reaches over 194,000 U.S. people monthly. The site is popular among a more male, more educated, and older following.
Usefulness: PolitiFact.com is a convenient resource for media consumers to stay updated with the follow-through of promises made by Obama prior to his election. The site entails the same basic premise of Trackingchange.net, but with reporters and editors from the St. Petersburg Times studying the progress of U.S. political agenda instead of University of Oregon journalism students. When the Obama administration releases a media announcement concerning the implementation of the women-owned business contracting program, the image on PolitiFact.com with change its status.
Works Cited:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/SmallBusinessFINAL.pdf
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
http://www.quantcast.com/politifact.com
Filed under: Journalistic Sources, Source Notes
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