New Web Site Alleges Conservatives Control Media.

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[RatherBiased.com]

Upset at an alleged conservative dominance of the news media, the liberal Center for American Progress has created a new think tank dedicated to rectifying the problem by exposing "erroneous assertions" made by conservative media figures.

Heading the effort is, David Brock, who made a name as a conservative journalist and author but later renounced his work and proclaimed he was a liberal.

"The right wing in this country has dominated the debate over liberal bias," Brock told the New York Times. "By dominating that debate, my belief is they've moved the media itself to the right and therefore they've moved American politics to the right."

Brock hopes that his new organization, through its Web site www.mediamatters.org, will be able to take back the debate through reaching out to the Internet-using public and providing fodder for liberal radio personalities to discuss.

Instead of focusing on news personalities and publications which claim to be nonpartisan, however, Media Matters will apparently target commentators. Visiting the site's offices, Times reporter Jim Rutenberg couldn't help but notice that small-audience cable news is the bee in David Brock's bonnet:

"In Mr. Brock's new K Street offices on Friday morning, a team of nearly a half-dozen researchers [...] wore headphones as they scanned episodes of cable news programs stored on digital recording devices, among them Hannity & Colmes on Fox News Channel, Dennis Miller on CNBC and Scarborough Country on MSNBC. Two researchers have been assigned to cover Mr. Limbaugh, whose program they will regularly transcribe."

It's hard not to see that focus shift as somewhat of a concession to the view that the biggest news outlets in America are controlled by liberals. If the best they can do is pick bones with people who are frank about their political views, don't expect Brock & Co. to be around for long.

[OpusatFR]

""The right wing in this country has dominated the debate over liberal bias," Brock told the New York Times. "By dominating that debate, my belief is they've moved the media itself to the right and therefore they've moved American politics to the right.""

Translation: We got caught with our biases down and are having a heck of time convincing you dumb twits that we aren't biased at all, what with all the alternative news sources. So we are going to monitor your right-wing conservative sites and tell you that these right-wing conservative sites are really, really right-wing conservative sites pretending to be unbiased self-proclaimed right-wing conservative sites.

Got that?

[ClearCase_guy]

This is a little like looking for dangerous manufacturing practices in the Auto Industry -- and ignoring Ford, Chrysler, GM, Toyota, and Honda. "I know! We'll investigate Bentley! I'm sure we can find evidence that will prove our point!"

[snooker]

So can we fire Tom, Peter, Dan, Judy ... now?

[Redcoat LI]

"The right wing in this country has dominated the debate over liberal bias,"

Should we expect the biased party to examine their own biases,wouldn't they be..biased?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Brock is a nutball.

[new cruelty]

Brock hopes that his new organization, through its Web site www.mediamatters.org, will be able to take back the debate through reaching out to the Internet-using public and providing fodder for liberal radio personalities to discuss.

Because errAmerica could probably use the help.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The standard Leftist argument is that since a few large conglomerates control most of the TV and radio stations, the media obviously has a conservative bias (because large conglomerates are, of course, by definition "right-wing, conservative, reactionary" entities).

[Timeout]

According to the NY Times, Brock's group got $2 million from wealthy liberals to fund their blog. $2 million! For a blog!

This is just another Dem spinoff funded by the same people who promoted Air America. If you look at their website you'll be scratching your head to think THAT is what $2 million liberal bucks will buy. It's horribly boring.

[AmericanMade1776]

Here are a couple of the Liberal elite in the Media!

[Katya]

It is true that since there is a more moderate venue of opinion now available in the media, that the typical far left perspective has indeed moved to the right.
Since the far left views even the DLC wing of the democratic party as conservative and right wing, the argument should not be focused on whether there is a Liberal bias, but that there is a democratic party bias within the media.

[Mamzelle]

Is mediamatters.com a non-profit?

[JoeSixPack1]

Just another pinheaded propaganda machine to keep the latte' crowd talking.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

"Heading the effort is, David Brock, who made a name as a conservative journalist and author but later renounced his work and proclaimed he was a liberal"

Confusing, you often hear of a man starting out liberal, and through wisdom and reality checks, ending up being conservative, but the other way around????

[KingKangaroo]

As somebody who has lived in many parts of the world, I have to say that US media is undoubtedly biased to the Right. But is that just an example of the market reacting to the customer?

[skinkinthegrass]

HA!HA!..LOL!...need..more..cheese...got enough whine.

[ClearCase_guy]

Brock's group got $2 million from wealthy liberals to fund their blog. $2 million!

I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this, but ...

Couldn't Soros fund a blog for about $2M? And couldn't he hire 1000 poor people with a salary of $2100 a piece? With the understanding that they would each keep $100 (for services rendered as "consultants" to the blog) and then donate the remainder of their salary to the Kerry For President Campaign?

Then Soros can hire one guy to write the blog and pay him $100,000 to justify the whole money laundering scheme.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Their name ought to be Center for Real American Progress (or C.R.A.P. for short.)

[jimbo123]

[PokeyJoe]

no brother, US Media is just less biased to the left than the BBC, but still biased to the left.

Hence, why you are reading FR, Drudge, Newsmax, Worldnetdaily, debka, and other forms of alternative news.