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19 Feb 08
Zee ----------I don't think any blogger in Minnesota has been the target of such a coordinated assault like I was with over 15 posts attacking me on 6 different blogs.
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The Center for Independent Media is spending at least $31,500 (7 paid bloggers x $4,500) to pay liberal bloggers in Minnesota.
This begs the question: who is funding Minnesota Monitor and the Center for Independent Media?
In the interest of full disclosure, I attempted to find the answer.
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I spoke with a representative of the Center for Independent Media and she informed me they are renting space from Media Matters and they do not receive any funding form Media Matters. I asked for information about their funding and she refused to provide me with any information about who is funding the Center for Independent Media.
If Media Matters is like the Center for Independent Media, it may be difficult to find out who is funding Minnesota Monitor:
"Media Matters has not always been forthcoming about its high-profile backers. In particular, the group has long labored to obscure any financial ties to George Soros. But in March 2003, the Cybercast News Service (CNS) detailed the copious links between Media Matters and several Soros 'affiliates'—among them MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, and Peter Lewis. Confronted with this story, a spokesman for the organization explained that 'Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros' (emphasis added), a transparent evasion.
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Nor were groups cited by CNS the only connection between Media Matters and Soros. As investigative journalist Byron York has noted, another Soros affiliate that bankrolled Media Matters was the New Democratic Network. In addition, Soros is reported to be involved in the newly formed Democracy Alliance, a partnership of some 80 affluent financiers who each have vowed to contribute $1 million or more in order to build up an ideological infrastructure of leftist thinks tanks and advocacy groups. News reports list Media Matters as a main beneficiary of the Alliance's funding. By August of 2004, Media Matters' operating budget had already doubled to $4 million.
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