Media-watchdog pioneer Reed Irvine dies-Was he getting too close?

[kuozzman]

Reed Irvine, the founder and chairman emeritus of Accuracy in Media and a tireless warrior in the battle to keep the press honest, died yesterday.

Irvine, considered a giant in the media-watchdog arena, founded AIM in 1969 and has been diligently working to combat distortion and bias in the media ever since.


http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41498


"Thank you, Reed, for a legacy that continues to give the free world a chance."

[Celeborn Skywalker]

1. Accuracy in Media

is a right wing media watchdog group tha monitors alleged "liberal" bias (yeah right:eyes: ) in the media.
I doubt they were investigating Bushco.

[DireStrike]

3. Ah! That explains it.

I was getting that vibe reading the piece.

[JHB]

14. Not just "a" RW media watch group; they were the Original...

..., the first to employ the now-standard "liberal means ANYTHING to the left of us" non-objective standards while pretending to be so, sending out newsletters and working congress and the Washington press corps, take money from Scaife and look presentable, etc.-tactics.

[DireStrike]

2. Uh, what the heck is this?

One of Irvine's projects was the "Can Dan" campaign he launched against CBS' Dan Rather some 16 years ago. This year, the quest to get Rather off the air picked up steam when the longtime network newsman used bogus documents as a basis for a story questioning President Bush's National Guard service. In September, AIM sponsored a rally in front of the CBS News offices in Washington, D.C., calling for the network to fire Rather.

Why was he screwing with Rather instead of Fox?

Oh well... I don't know enough about this guy to say anything... but if he was as the article says, We'll miss him.

[ISUGRADIA]

4. Reed was a watchdog over the "liberal" media

and a conservative hack. Why would a DUer want to honor this guy for anything?

[UdoKier]

5. Brent Bozell has been their main spokesliar for many years now...

If memory serves...

[ISUGRADIA]

10. Spokesliar...I like that term

To see that AIM is no even handed group just check out their "Shocking Pictures from Iraq" page:

http://www.aim.org/static/2194_0_7_0_C

Nice whitewash, no pics of wounded getting picked off in cold blood.

[ShaneGR]

17. Grasping for straws...

Basically.

[President Jesus]

6. Reed's campaign donations: he wasn't one of us

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=MD&last=Irvine&first=Reed

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. Is this a joke?

Good riddance.......one less right wing prick telling me what I can and can't watch.

[m berst]

8. you've got to be kidding

Getting too close to WHAT?

[Raster]

9. good riddance. post your honorarium somewhere else.

[d_b]

11. Poor Reed.

the crusader against the liberal media :eyes:

[President Jesus]

12. i thought you had to have 250 posts to start a thread?

guess not.

[Maccagirl]

13. He was no friend of the truth or accuracy

He was a huge Clinton-hater and a mean and bitter old man.

[JHB]

15. Clinton-Hater? Hell, he was a CARTER-hater!

Irvine was one of the founding fathers of the current RW spin & distortion media machine.

[AP]

16. This guy also founded rightwing Accuracy in Academia.

[BurtWorm]

18. Getting too close to what? Death?

I guess so. :shrug:

[Ducks In A Row]

19. I guess you'll be taking back that "poor Reed" part

do you really think that guy did anything except fuck with the media so it doesn't tell the truth.

[kuozzman]

20. WOW! God, I didn't even know who this guy was, I was just

making a joke about him maybe digging stuff up about the stolen election, so they took him out.

I didn't mean to offend anyone by giving praise to this bastard...

[AP]

21. How'd you find out about this? Listening to right wing radio?