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Former Conservative Journalist Starts Conservative Monitoring Website

Say hello to Media Matters, the new website headed up by former conservative journalist David Brock, since turned progressive. The New York Times explores the new site which it says will monitor conservative websites and radio and tv programs.

The site is well funded--to the tune of $2 million--by the folks at American Center Progress Report and other wealthy liberals:

Among Mr. Brock's donors is Leo Hindery Jr., the former cable magnate; Susie Tompkins Buell, who is co-founder of the fashion company Esprit and is close to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and Ms. Buell's husband Mark; and James C. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist whose appointment as ambassador to Luxembourg was delayed for a year and a half in the late 1990's by conservative lawmakers protesting what they called his promotion of a "gay lifestyle."

Here's how Media Matters describes itself:

Media Matters for America is 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. For the first time, Media Matters for America puts in place a system to monitor the media for conservative misinformation—every day, in real time—in 2004 and beyond. We will comprehensively monitor a cross-section of print, radio, broadcast, cable, and Internet media outlets to identify conservative misinformation.

Atrios is impressed with the website and wants a job working on it. He'd be a great addition. Maybe they could also use a criminal defense lawyer to monitor Ashcroft and the Justice Department?

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