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Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
ProCon.org
Santa Monica, CA
2004-
URL: www.procon.org
Last visited February 2012
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Keywords Electronic media, Politics, Twenty-first century
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2013-0030
Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues is produced by ProCon.org, a nonprofit charity that provides information about controversial issues relevant to current events. As the name would suggest, each of the 47 articles in ProCon.org database contains arguments both for and against the topic at hand. The website, created in 2004, provides a timeline of its own history, including awards and recognition it has received from organizations like the American Library Association and the National Council for Social Studies. The site mainly focuses on issues relevant to the US and claims to be objective in its coverage.
There are 11 categories under which each procon argument is placed: Education, Elections and Presidents, Health and Medicine, Media and Entertainment, Money and Business, Politics, Religion, Science and Technology, Sex and Gender, Sports, and World/International. These are displayed in alphabetical order on the front page, with the 47 issues under each category in alphabetical order. Each issue...