David Brock: NY Times Is a ‘Megaphone for Conservative
Propaganda’
by John Sexton 10 Sep 2015
David Brock, top
attack dog at progressive site Media Matters,
is unleashing an attack on a surprising target.
In a forthcoming book titled, “Killing the Messenger: The
Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary Clinton and Hijack Your Government,” Brock
alleges the NY Times is out to get Hillary Clinton.
Politico reports Brock accuses NY Times‘s senior
political editor Carolyn Ryan of having it out for Clinton. Brock also claims
he has spoken to members of the Times’s staff who confirmed it.
Specifically, these sources claim Ryan refused to run a full statement from
Hillary’s spokesman Nick Merrill because she believes the Clintons (Bill and
Hillary) are liars. Apparently none of the sources in the book are identified
by name.
Many who have observed Hillary’s revised
and re-revised statements about her email server since March have
suggested she is not being completely truthful. Bob Woodward even suggested the
spectacle was reminiscent of Watergate. But according to Brock, the NY
Times has
become a “megaphone for conservative propaganda.” He reportedly also
writes that the Times, “will have a special place in hell,” for its
biased coverage of the candidate.
The NY Times‘s Eileen Murphy responded to Brock’s
attack, telling
Politico, “David Brock is an opportunist and a partisan who specializes in
personal attacks. We’ve seen him lash out at some of our aggressive coverage of
important political figures and it’s unsurprising that he has now turned
personal. He’s wrong on all counts.”
Amy Chozick, who covers Clinton for the Times,
defended Ryan’s work and fairness. She told Politico, “She has always
been a fair-minded, inspiring and brilliant editor who has never shown even a
hint of bias (for or against) any candidate we cover.”
The NY Times has published several pieces on Hillary
which have apparently had an impact on her campaign. In April, a story by Jo
Becker and Mike McIntire noted an unusual Uranium
mining agreement made after a visit to Kazakhstan by Bill Clinton
(and some large donations to the Clinton Foundation which followed).
More significantly, the Times was first to
report Clinton had exclusively used a private sever for all of her
email while Secretary of State, a story which continues to dog her campaign.
David Brock and Media Matters have led the
pushback against coverage of the email story since March.
The Times took
heat, including from Media Matters, for a July story claiming the
FBI had opened a criminal investigation on Hillary. Though the DOJ
initially confirmed the story, they later corrected to say the FBI
had opened a “security investigation” which did not target Hillary
specifically. The referral to DOJ was made by the Intelligence Community
Inspector General who believed classified information on Clinton’s private
server may have been mishandled.
The FBI collected Clinton’s blank server and several
thumb drives she had given to her attorney after the IC IG reported finding two instances of
Top Secret information in a small subset of her emails. This week, the CIA confirmed that the information in the two
emails identified by the IG is in fact classified at the Top Secret level.
New York Times
Richard R. Burt
was a correspondent for the New York
Times, and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, the Committee for
Economic Development, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a co-chair,
national finance council for the Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary), was a benefactor at the NPR, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
and a contributor for the American
Bridge 21st Century.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NPR, Media Matters, the Committee for Economic Development, Common Cause, the People for the American Way, and
the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Leslie
H. Gelb was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and a reporter, columnist & op-ed page editor for the New York Times.
Kinsey
Wilson was the EVP & chief content officer for the NPR, and is the EVP for the New
York Times.
William Kristol
was a columnist for the New York Times,
and a contributor for the Fox News.
Media Matters monitors
Fox News.
David
Brock is the founder of Media
Matters, an adviser for the Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary), a director at the American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, and was the founder of the
American Bridge 21st Century.
American
Bridge 21st Century Foundation is a fundraising arm for the American Bridge 21st Century.
Sidney Blumenthal
is a consultant for the American Bridge
21st Century, a consultant for Media
Matters, a friend & confidant of Hillary
Rodham Clinton, and was a consultant for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Eleanor D.
Acheson is a college roommate & friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton, David
C. Acheson’s daughter, and was an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.
David C. Acheson
is Eleanor D. Acheson’s father, and
an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
Richard R. Burt
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), and was a correspondent for the New York Times.
Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is
a division of the U.S. Department of
Justice.
William H. Webster
was a director at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), a director at the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), and is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Richard R. Burt
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), and was a correspondent for the New York Times.
William S.
Sessions was a director at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development,
and the U.S. attorney for the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Richard J. Davis
was a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development, and an assistant
special prosecutor for the Watergate
Special Prosecution Force.
Watergate
Special Prosecution Force was a temporary force for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Archibald
Cox was the prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and the chairman for Common Cause.
Melanne Verveer
was a field manager for Common Cause,
the chief of staff for Hillary Rodham
Clinton, the EVP for the People for
the American Way, is a director at the Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities,
and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank).
Richard R. Burt
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), and was a correspondent for the New York Times.
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