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Supposing there's merit to what you're saying, nonprofits aren't compelled to be impartial. That's why, just to give you two examples, there are many antiabortion and sexual purity nonprofits. Conservatives are just as capable of forming a 501(3)c devoted solely to exposing so-called liberal media bias. Hop to it.




There was a time, in this country, when a journalist would report on a story no matter which side of the aisle it cast in a bad light. That began to change when CNN came along and was loathed to do stories that cast any dispersion on the left.

FOX news took the same sort of partisan journalism and did it better than CNN, look at the ratings, but why you hate FOX isn’t that they’re doing it better than CNN, you hate it because they’re not doing it for your side.

Media Matters is just the latest iteration of the same sort of thing. Conservatives laugh at them when they say they are being a fair watchdog, just as liberals laugh when FOX news says they’re fair and balanced.