Blog #5 - Website Evaluation

1. URL: http://www.martinlutherking.org/library.html
It has .org but the content seemed more opinion driven than fact driven. I have no idea who published it, and there’s no proof of who did.

2. Vincent Breeding is the Webmaster and there are various authors to the articles on the page. There where no dates on any of the article that I could find. As for credentials on the subject; they don’t offer much solid resources. Either I couldn’t find the URL, or the sources relation was unreliable or unrelated like the link http://www.unl.edu/philosop/gradplag.html.

3. There where a few sources mentioned but not actually documented. Information is presented that’s supposed to be from a source, but the source is not given. I would have to say that the much of the information is altered, by taking bits of certain information, and reinterpreting them to their use.

4. The only other links to that website are all stormfont.org. Obviously this is an illegitimate site. Only one link is found.

5. The factual legitimacy of the website doesn’t add up because of the lack of real supported information. The only thing that adds up is that it was created with support of stormfront, and under no true structure.

6. The page was put on the web to inform the “truth” about Martin Luther King Jr to the public, and to “teach” that all we know now is not fact. I don’t believe that this was a satire or parody. This group of people believe they’re doing what’s right. They’re white supremacists that want to get their message across, considering they’re sponsored by Stormfront.
This is definitely not a site I’d allow to be used as a source of information in school. The organization is not one I’d trust for accurate accounts of history. I think that allowing students to see the site is ok, but with the acknowledgment that it’s not reliable.