Hapgood

2 responses to “Assignment: Is This Really Pew?”

1. 

   macurcher

   October 18, 2017 at 1:24 am

   Hi Mike
   Thanks for this, I enjoyed it. OK – so this was my approach, instead of looking at the site at people-press.org and pewresearch.org which both look pretty genuine and legit – I went off laterally – I found some interesting things, first of all Wikipedia told me that the full name of Pew Research is in fact “Pew Research Center for the People & the Press” which would seem that the people-press.org URL is not out of the question, given the history.

   Then I went to look that the Library of Congress link for them – as a foreigner in Europe this seemed like a creditable source – https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwa00092962/ that lists the people-press.org as a domain for Pew. Then to be 100% sure I also used Whois.net to see to whom the domain is registered https://www.whois.net/ that confirmed to me that the domain is registered to Pew.

   So given all these three points – my conclusion is yes, it is genuine.
   Is there a better way to do it? The whole process took less time than the time it has taken me to post this comment – say about 3 minutes all told.

   Thanks and best
   Mark

   Reply
2. 

   Megan Brooks

   October 18, 2017 at 6:34 am

   Yes, it is. The way I know is that I went to the main Pew Research site to confirm they link to the same URL for US Politics and Policy. I also checked out who owns the domain via Network Solution’s whois lookup, and sure enough, Pew Research owns it.

   Reply