Howard Kurtz cites Olin/Scaife puppet to claim CBS, NBC, & ABC favor Kerry

[Karmadillo]

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.html

If 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

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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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On Edit: Hotted up subject title.

[Karmadillo]

1. Kick for new title

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[JI7]

2. Kurtz is one of the most disgusting whores around, he is like Candy

Crowley and Cokie Roberts.

[Shopaholic]

3. Kurtz is a joke.

period. End of story.

[NewJeffCT]

4. the Hartford Courant cited the same study a few weeks back

I got the same link as you from Disinfopedia and angrily emailed the Courant story writer (Liz Halloran) and the Courant itself, but got no response.

Great link from DU, though.

[Flubadubya]

5. Should have seen his "hour-long" Reliable Sources yesterday...

Ugghh!!! It was the biggest right-wing rape fest I have ever seen. The entire program was dedicated to eviscerating Rather and CBS news and it continued unabated for the entire hour... except for the last few minutes when he had James Carville on. Kurtz was on a roll by then and tried very hard to turn it on Cueball, accusing him of betraying his "journalistic integrity" by helping the Kerry campaign and appearing on CNN's Crossfire. Carville just laughed in his face and accused him of high level hypocrisy. James held his own, but I have never seen Kurtz on such a liberal-trouncing tear in all my days.

It was really disgusting. He had on Jonah Goldberg and sevearal other big-time Right-wingers (some I did not know), but they were ALL after Rather's hide. It sounded like a lynch mob outside an old west jail house. They wanted to drag Dirty Dan out and string him up right now!

Phew, what a stinking travesty by the so-called "overseer" of the media. Howie, go get a job you would really be good at... like collecting garbage on the streets.

[HootieMcBoob]

6. Hey, watch what you say about garbage collectors

those men and women perform a very important service. They do a job that is difficult and dirty and by doing it they contribute a great deal to society. We need to all thank them for the important work they do for us.

Now ask yourself: what do people like kurtz and the other corporate media, right-wing trained and funded blowhards add to society? Not a god damn thing that's what. In fact they are a plague on our nation. A boil, a festering puss filled boil. They are so low and infected with evil that those that work in the sanitation field would be unwise to bend down to pick them up. They are bad fucking news.
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[Flubadubya]

7. LOL... you're right...

It's an insult to our REAL sanitation workers. I was actually trying to allude to the fact that all Howie does now is "pick up trash" for journalism, and was suggesting that if that is all he can do for his chosen field, why not just go and do the real thing.

What a little Freepturd Howie is. Hah! A festering puss-filled boil. You got that right!

[DeepModem Mom]

8. CONTACT THE HELL OUT OF THIS: [e-mail] and...

[e-mail].

The Post's "media critic" should be on the op-ed page. He's completely under the spell of his wingnut wife.

[Supersedeas]

10. Who's funding the media critic? Content and substance be damned...again

[Karmadillo]

11. Thanks for the link.

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[DeepModem Mom]

9. kick