This is just ridiculous. It's just amazing the crap the media can pull and stil be portrayed as a nest of commies. The Center for Media and Public Affairs has received 86% of its funding from Olin, Scaife, and Smith Richardson (debunking link below after excerpt from Kurtz). Of course they admit FOX is right wing (rain is wet). Their claim the network news shows favor Kerry is obviously untrue to anyone who watches them, but the report will be used by the right (including their allies at the Washington Post and CNN) as evidence the media really is liberal (if you have time and a strong stomach, read the CMPA's report that the media only praised Reagan after his death--Orwell couldn't have done better).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52565-2004Sep26.htmlIf you were watching the network evening news in June, July and August, you would have seen somewhat favorable coverage of John Kerry -- six out of 10 evaluations were positive -- and somewhat unfavorable coverage of President Bush.
If you were watching Fox News Channel's 6 p.m. newscast, you would have seen about the same coverage of the president. But Kerry's evaluations were negative by a 5 to 1 margin.
That finding, by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, might suggest that some Fox folks have it in for Kerry. Or it might suggest that the broadcast networks are too easy on Kerry, who the group says has gotten the best network coverage of any presidential nominee since it began tracking in 1988. Or that we have entered an era of red media and blue media to match the country's polarization.
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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Center_for_Media_and_Public_Affairs<edit>
The Center for Media and Public Affairs was founded in the mid 1980s by S. Robert Lichter and Linda Lichter <2>. According to Salon.com, "the seed money for
center was solicited by the likes of Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson" <3>.
Funding
CMPA's claim to be 'non-partisan' is undermined by an analysis of its sources of funding. Information provided by mediatransparency.org <4> reveals that the overwhelming proportion of CMPA's funding comes from conservative foundations. The funding information, covering 1986-2002, lists the following donors:
*Carthage Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $267,000 from 5 donations
*Earhart Foundation
*John M. Olin Foundation - $730,000 from 15 donations
*Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
*Sarah Scaife Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $760,000 from 9 donations
*Smith Richardson Foundation - $416,916 from 3 donations
Thus, out of the total of $2,523,916, nearly all of it ($2,173,916) came from just three sources: the John M. Olin, Scaife, and Smith Richardson foundations. In other words, CMPA received 86% of its funding from those 3 donors. Here is a sample of other right-wing causes funded by these 3 donors, as listed by their respective Disinfopedia articles:
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