Category: Fact Checking

  • Connert Media’s Recommendations for Progressive News and Information

    Slate
    One of the great advantages of being an electronic publication is that Slate can publish stories very quickly. When the president makes an important speech, our political correspondent’s analysis can be live before the janitors have cleaned the auditorium. When the stock market rallies after the tragic death of a senator, our financial writer can break down the phenomenon just hours after the event.

    The Washington Post
    “Democracy dies in darkness” is their cut-line under their banner.  The Washington Post has led to the charge for honest and fair reporting of the United States government.

    The Daily Beast
    Independent. Irreverent. Intelligent. The Daily Beast delivers award-winning original reporting and sharp opinion in the arena of politics, pop-culture and power. Always skeptical but never cynical, The Daily Beast reaches more than 1 million readers a day.

  • Congressional Staffers & Family – Student Loans

    Many emails circulate about members of congress, their staffers and their families do not have to pay back student loans.

    FALSE

    Some folks confuse the use of Title 2, Chapter 4, Section 60c-6 as doing such.

    The Chief Administrative Officer shall establish a program under which an employing office of the House of Representatives may agree to repay (by direct payment on behalf of the employee) any student loan previously taken out by an employee of the office. For purposes of this section, Member of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress) shall not be considered to be an employee of the House of Representatives.

    References:

    1. Snopes
    2. FactCheck
    3. OPM – US Office of Personal Management