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Media Matters for America is a non-profit organization founded by former conservative journalist David Brock. Media Matters provides near real-time monitoring, and where necessary refutation of identified and materially substantiated conservative misinformation found in media news reports, public affairs and talk radio shows from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and other outlets. Through the group's web site, launched in May 2004, Media Matters describes itself as "a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Conservative misinformation is defined as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda."
The New York Times reported that they have received "more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals" and "was developed with help from the newly formed Center for American Progress".
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Media Matters for America uses a variety of techniques to demonstrate how they believe information is manipulated by right-wing media figures. Employing methods such as -- content analysis, fact checking, monitoring; comparison of quotes or presentations from media figures to primary documents such The Pentagon or Government Accountability Office reports -- MMfA provides daily analysis and more comprehensive overviews to its readers. Founder David Brock also appears before Congressional committies and forums where matters of these concerns have been under discussion by the body.
Media Matters have however come under sharp criticism from some of the subjects of their 'fact checking.' Bill O'Reilly, host of the USA's top rated cable news show 'The O'Reilly Factor', has countered their claims on his program and refers to Media Matters as a 'far left wing outfit' and 'dishonest smear merchants.'