Disgraced former journalist David Brock "is starting a new endeavor built to combat the very sector of journalism that spawned him, with support from the same sorts of people (Democrats) about whom he once wrote so critically," the New York Times reports:
With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.
The site, called Media Matters, was devised as part of a larger media apparatus being built by liberals to combat what they say is the overwhelming influence of conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. . . .
Mr. Brock said he hoped his new project could be as influential as the Media Research Center, a conservative media monitoring group run by L. Brent Bozell III that frequently calls attention to what it calls examples of liberal bias in the news media.
If you check out the Media Matters Web site here are some of its shocking revelations:
Linda Chavez, a conservative columnist, has written a column reflecting her harshly critical opinion of John Kerry.
In the commentary panel segment of "Fox News Sunday," Chris Wallace expressed an opinion critical of last week's "Nightline" show rehearsing the names of soldiers who've died in Iraq.
Some conservative pundits don't agree with the opinion of Thomas Oliphant, a Boston Globe reporter, vis-?-vis Kerry's Medalgate scandal.
Do you See the problem here? Brock's new shop is devoted to faulting conservative opinion journalists for expressing conservative opinions. What the Media Research Center does is entirely different; it analyzes liberal bias in the news media, which are supposed to be objective.
If liberals are willing to spend $2 million funding a Web site that does nothing more than expose conservative commentators for engaging in conservative commentary, can we really afford to trust them with our tax dollars?NYTimes Article
With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.
The site, called Media Matters, was devised as part of a larger media apparatus being built by liberals to combat what they say is the overwhelming influence of conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. . . .
Mr. Brock said he hoped his new project could be as influential as the Media Research Center, a conservative media monitoring group run by L. Brent Bozell III that frequently calls attention to what it calls examples of liberal bias in the news media.
If you check out the Media Matters Web site here are some of its shocking revelations:
Linda Chavez, a conservative columnist, has written a column reflecting her harshly critical opinion of John Kerry.
In the commentary panel segment of "Fox News Sunday," Chris Wallace expressed an opinion critical of last week's "Nightline" show rehearsing the names of soldiers who've died in Iraq.
Some conservative pundits don't agree with the opinion of Thomas Oliphant, a Boston Globe reporter, vis-?-vis Kerry's Medalgate scandal.
Do you See the problem here? Brock's new shop is devoted to faulting conservative opinion journalists for expressing conservative opinions. What the Media Research Center does is entirely different; it analyzes liberal bias in the news media, which are supposed to be objective.
If liberals are willing to spend $2 million funding a Web site that does nothing more than expose conservative commentators for engaging in conservative commentary, can we really afford to trust them with our tax dollars?NYTimes Article
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