…let me just direct those who may not have discovered it already to David Brock’s new site, Media Matters for America.
Welcome to Media Matters for America, a new Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Because a healthy democracy depends on public access to accurate and reliable information, Media Matters for America is dedicated to alerting news outlets and consumers to conservative misinformation — wherever we find it, in every news cycle — and to spurring progressive activism based on standards and accountability in media.
Hopefully Brock will be careful in his posts to not repeat the slur “conservative misinformation in the U.S. media”; and early postings do focus on individuals, not “conservatives” as a group. But as, just the other day, someone was bemoaning the lack of a Glenn Reynolds style effort to spin all the news through liberal colored glasses, it looks like their prayers have been answered. And then some.
Hello!
Yes Edward, there is “conservative misinformation” in the media. Doesn’t that coffee smell good?
I’m not suggesting all conservatives misinform. Would you be happier if Brock’s phrase had been “conservative wingnut misinformation” or “rightwing conservative misinformation” or what?
I’m suspicious of Brock because of his miraculous conversion, but your hint that some balancing forces on the left aren’t needed for the NRO, Hannity, Limbaugh, Faux News, etc. is kind of silly.
I give up Jim.
The tone of the post was a tail-between-my-legs effort to be self-deprecating (due to an earlier partisan statement on another thread that upset some people whose opinions I value)…it was also meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
I welcome this web site and hope it straddles the line between effectiveness and balance.