Test question: Fact or Opinion?

As any parent will tell you, a child is taught to tell the difference between fact and opinion sometime around elementary school. It's a skill that's tested in the classroom as well as on standardized tests.
Well, now we adults are being tested, too. Turns out that companies are using the Internet to post press releases as if they were real news stories. Infomercials resurrected as Netmercials. (Read http:///www.csmonitor.com/2006/0329/p01s01-ussc.html?s=hns.) While the Internet has done wonders to democratize the flow of information, those of us who use it are still trying to figure out the good, the bad and the ugly.