Annotation for source 5

Source:
"Front Groups." Source Watch. 28 June 2010. Web.
 <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Front_groups>.


This source is an open source wiki whose intention is to expose the sources of special interest groups particularly front groups. These front groups are organizations who act as if they originate from grassroots initiative when in reality they are funded by corporations to advocate their interests in politics. SourceWatch make use of information provided by all people to keep track of the actions of these groups as well as their claims made while simultaneously exposing the true funders of these organizations. In this way, SourceWatch is able to provide a means for educating people as to the underlying intentions of special interest groups that claim to be acting in the interest of common people. This service allows further understanding of commercials that may advocate the passage or negation of a certain legislature that may be for or against the funding corporation.


In my inquiry, SourceWatch provides key examples of how corporations may use underhanded tactic to advance their political interest by subverting the beliefs of innocent people through rhetoric and television commercials. Furthermore, SourceWatch, being a website, gives an example of how the internet can prevent corporations from gaining too much power in the parlor room of ideas. This also leads to an example of the possible consequences of allowing corporations to control the internet such as the inability to know the front groups acting in the interest of solely profit interested corporations.