Daily News Article - March 6, 2007
1. What is Conservapedia.com?
2. Why was Conservapedia.com formed?
3. Who created Conservapedia.com?
4. What claims does the site make about Wikipedia.org?
5. How did a representative for Wikipedia respond to Conservapedia's assertion that it has a liberal bias?
6. Read the "Examples of Bias in Wikipedia" page at conservapedia.com. Do you think that Conservapedia's assertion that Wikipedia has a liberal bias is accurate? Explain your answer.
Over the next several weeks/months, when reading about a controversial issue: global warming, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, the death penalty, gun control, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc., read the entries at wikipedia.org and decide if you think they portray one side of the issue in a better light than the other.