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[fortdixlover]

Who is paying for "Media Matters for America?"

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Conservative misinformation is defined as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda.

Wow. When I review this just-started website, I find a massive site with a massive staff.

At http://mediamatters.org/etc/about.html I count more than 20 employees:

Katie Barge
David S. Bennahum
Duncan B. Black
David Brock
Nicole Casta
Jeremy Cluchey
Amanda Fazzone
Jamison Foser
Michelle Jeung
Terry Krepel
Marcia Kuntz
Shant Mesrobian
Jessica Moore
Kevin Nix
Carlyn Reichel
Melissa Salmanowitz
Andrew Seifter
Naomi Seligman
Brian Szymanski
Gabriel Wildau
Oliver Willis
Avi Zollman

It is clear this "non-profit" operation is funded by several million dollars of money, likely from Heinz or Soros. I would estimate a budget of $2 million at least.

Does anyone have more information on who funds this site?

FDL

[fortdixlover]

Never mind. I found an answer in a web search.

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/luskin200405050850.asp

May 05, 2004
Truth Matters
The last recession began under Clinton, despite rewrites on the Left.

Media Matters for America is a new website (mediamatters.org) "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation." It's been developed with the zillions of tax-deductible dollars that George Soros and others contributed to the leftist Center for American Progress. It's run by a confessed liar, former conservative author David Brock, who has admitted that he knowingly lied in his book about Anita Hill, and has apologized for his reporting on Bill Clinton's sexual misadventures.

So far the work from Media Matters isn't very impressive. But what should we expect when the Left is put in charge of a quest for truth?

The first major article posted on the Media Matters website is an attempted exposé of the often-heard conservative claim that the last economic recession began during the Clinton administration — or, in other words, that it was already underway when George W. Bush took office in 2001. The article painstakingly traces the history of this claim through numerous statements by Bush administration officials and conservative commentators, presenting all this as a "successful three-and-a-half year media campaign" that has led to polling results showing "62% of Americans think the recession began under Clinton."

[Me#1You#10]

ROFL...good one FDL

[SharpTalons]

This guy wrote the "piece" on Corsi.

Duncan B. Black holds a PhD in economics from Brown University. He has held teaching and research positions at the London School of Economics; the Université catholique de Louvain; the University of California, Irvine; and, recently, Bryn Mawr College. He also has been involved with grassroots political activism. Black is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

I think their mission statement stinks like Limberger cheese.

For the other side of the coin, there's Brent Bozell's Media Research Center. Always excellent stuff on that site, but look at the article that I just found a minute ago....

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040806.asp#1

Holey smokehouse, did they ever do a good job of analyzing the media coverage of SBVFT!

It's long, but definitely worth a read!
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