Wednesday, September 14, 2011

ATTACK WATCH!!! (Article Review #1)

Article Title:
Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of conservatives

Article Author:
Elizabeth Flock

Article Publication Date:
September 14th, 2011

URL:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/attack-watch-new-obama-campaign-site-to-fight-smears-becomes-laughing-stock-of-the-internet/2011/09/14/gIQAspHDSK_blog.html


Article Summary:
Attack Watch is a website that has been set up by Obama’s Campaign Team to help him win in 2012. People who support Obama would submit reports to AttackWatch.com that are based on negative remarks on the president from both republicans and conservatives. These remarks would be dismissed with facts.

Relevance to Class:
This website serves more of a user purpose. It’s their duty to find a negative remark from a conservative or republican. Then site would provide facts to dismiss the negative remark, thus providing the users with content. The context of this website is to actually help Obama win in 2012.

Key Quote:
“This site is a tool providing our supporters with the facts they need to fight back against lies and distortions about the President’s record,” Hogan said.

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