thank you

However, are the orgs even 501(c)3s? They might be (c)4s.

A couple of questions you should pursue.

Do any of the Minnesota Monitor fellows work out of the Media Matters office?

From what location do the fellows blog? Are they in D.C.?

Furthermore, examine the creation of “Center for Independent Media”. It doesn’t appear to be anything more than an attempt to organize bloggers to support political campaigns. It’s field organizer for Minnesota was Ali(Alexandra) Savino. Ali was Frank Pallone’s blogger up until August 2005. That’s likely around the time that the Center was created in order to do blogger outreach in Colorado and Minnesota to swing elections.

Savino was at the Vegas Kos. She was on C-Span. She was paid salary by “Dean for America” in 2003. She wrote a piece for “The Leader”, a paper in New Jersey, about Dean’s race to become DNC chair without disclosing to readers, nor the newspaper, that she was paid salary by “Dean for America”.

What you’ve got here is a professional astroturf organization led by dishonest people. I’d advise you to gather the facts and send them to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo and tell him you’ve got another astroturf operation that he loves to talk about.

You are right. Michael Brodkorb has never retracted a story. That is kind of my point though. He has made mistakes. He has been outright wrong. But he fears what a retraction would do to his credibility, so rather than do the responsible thing and fess up to his errors, he simply hopes we all forget. This is not an ethical way to exist.

Anne-

You have just provided me with a great deal of insight into your ability to serpate partisan blather from reality. Thank you.

http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2006/10/breaking-nooz-lloydlettas-nooz.html

MDE’s Michael Broadkorb has exposed many a liberal dirty trick but none more revealing than this one:Prior to founding Media Matters, David Brock met with a number of leading Democratic Party figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, former…

The money rew, where are you getting the money?

It’s a very simple question that anyone who purports to have signed a “code of ethics” should understand.

Doesn’t your code say something about integrity? Let’s see…sure, here it is:

“New Journalist Fellows should inform the public of news stories and issues without letting improper relationships compromise their integrity.”

Huh. “improper relationships” eh? Like partisan special interest groups?

Oh! What’s this?

“Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived, and disclose unavoidable conflicts.”

Conflicts, like being paid by partisan special interest groups??

Oh, wait…that can’t be, because you honest new journalists also pledged to:

“Maintain integrity by resisting pressure from advertisers and special interests to influence news coverage.”

So I guess taking money from left-wing special interests is out, out, out..right?

And, and wasn’t there something in there about accountability? I’m sure there was…let me look again..yup, it’s right here:

“New Journalist Fellows are accountable to their readers, critics, advocates and each other as well as to the public at large.”

There we have it.

So now, to maintain your integrity and live up to the accountability you owe the public please tell us…

WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL OF THIS HONESTY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTEGRITY?

I take Mike’s efforts very, very serioiusly!

Those with no credibility (that means you, Hugo Chavez) should not accuses others of sinking in the same ship.

See rew dance.

Speak rew, speak…who is signing your checks?

Minnesota Monitor has one.

How exactly does a blogger who is struggling with enormous conflict of interest issues and a growing lack of credibility for his willingness to attack with dubious claims believe that anyone will take his efforts to raise the ethical issues of others seriously?

Fellowship:

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1. The financial grant made to a fellow in a college or university.
2. The status of having been awarded such a grant.
3. A foundation established for the awarding of such a grant.

Suddenly, I can’t post on those lefty blogs. I know i’m not using abusive language and i’m right on topic. What could the problem be?

I thought they supported free speech?

For some reason, I think this will make it to all our honest radio stations here and other respectable blogs.

I’ll enjoy spreading the news myself!

What i’d really like to know is how long these Dim bloggers, bought and paid for by the Dimocratic Corrupt Campaign for Truth and Justice , knew about these IM’s intended to smear the GOP leadership? If you listen to talk radio and talk to conservatives, this has only rallied our troops. Money is being poured into the GOP campaigns because good people have had enough of your commie tactics.. The FBI might be knocking at your doors already!

Doug, stay away from those microwaves. Atleast now, you and your friends have a reason to be paranoid.

It’s being paid to blog — and not disclosing it — that’s the issue here.

Or is that too recycled for you?