Robert Anton Wilson
American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic
David Brock is an American liberal political consultant, author, and commentator who founded the media watchdog group Media Matters for America. He has been described by Time as “one of the most influential operatives in the Democratic Party”.
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David Brock is an American liberal political consultant, author, and commentator who founded the media watchdog group Media Matters for America. He has been described by Time as “one of the most influential operatives in the Democratic Party”.
Brock began his career as a right-wing investigative reporter during the 1990s. He wrote the book The Real Anita Hill and the Troopergate story, which led to Paula Jones filing a lawsuit against Bill Clinton. In the late-1990s, he switched political sides, aligning himself with the Democratic Party and in particular with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
In 2004, he founded Media Matters for America, a non-profit organization which describes itself as a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media”. He has since also founded super PACs called American Bridge 21st Century and Correct the Record, has become a board member of the super PAC Priorities USA Action, advised The 65 Project, and has been elected chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingtongroup designed to counter Republican-led congressional investigations.
4 Quotes by David Brock
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You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn’t matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.
David BrockAmerican journalist (1962-)
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I’ve been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
David BrockAmerican journalist (1962-)
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It’s all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
David BrockAmerican journalist (1962-)
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Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
David BrockAmerican journalist (1962-)