I'm not gonna comment on this article per se but I am a fan of history. Lets take a look back at the evolution of our current internet media landscape by investigating this one.

Case File 0002-A: NewsBusters

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NewsBusters, is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC)

*****Who is the MRC***

The MRC is the creation of one L. Brent Bozell III. Before that he worked for The National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC; pronounced "nick-pack") run by Terry Dolan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"...a New Right political action committee that was a major contributor to the ascendancy of conservative Republicans in the early 1980s, including the election of Ronald Reagan as President, and that innovated the use of independent expenditures to circumvent campaign finance restrictions.

NCPAC became one of the first groups to circumvent the contribution limits of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by exploiting the "independent expenditure" loophole permitted under a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Although federal law restricted political action committees' expenditures to $10,000 per candidate, an organization could spend unlimited amounts of money supporting or opposing a particular candidate as long as their campaign activity was not coordinated with a candidate."

Translation- if you are an independent group (a PAC) you can spend as much money as you want on marketing a candidate or smearing a candidate, and whats better the candidate is not saying it, the PAC group is.

NCPAC Chairman Terry Dolan was quoted as saying, "A group like ours could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Dolan later said he was describing a hypothetical situation, not NCPAC's actual tactics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

These are the originators of the mass mailing, mailgram, leaflet, smear campaigns that we are so familiar with today. Men like Bozell have taken this political propaganda to the internet and present it through fake news sites and blogs like this one.

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According to the MRCs website, "The MRC, headquartered in Alexandria, VA, began modestly with a handful of employees, a black and white TV, and a rented computer...and a $339,000 initial annual budget." "Established in 1987, the MRC has made “media bias” a household term..."

Indeed you have Bozell, indeed you have... and well put.

MRC now has a 10 million dollar budget.

*****The PTC*****************

Later Bozell founded the Parents Television Council or PTC in 1995, after he felt that decency was declining on prime-time television programming.

"In 2001, the PTC organized a mass advertiser boycott of the professional wrestling television program WWF SmackDown! over claims that the program caused the deaths of young children who they felt were influenced by watching the program only later to be sued by the WWF over claims that the PTC used false statements in their campaign."

The case was settled in WWF's favor. In the opening minutes of the court case, Bozell presented video evidence but was quickly countered by WWF's legal representative Dwayne Johnson, who objected with a Standing Facebuster, Bozell recovered and called a media expert to the stand but Johnson retorted with The Peoples Elbow which seriously weakened Bosell's case. Bosell conceded and had to admit to Johnson and to the Court, that he did indeed, "Smelleth what the Rock Cooketh" and payed out 3.5 million.

Some have suggested, the true goal of PTC is to get more government control over all television, not just kid shows, right wing government control-- a chilling thought.

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The MRC launched the NewsBusters blog in August of 2005, with the assistance of Matthew Sheffield, of Dialog New Media. Matthew Sheffield was the founder of RatherBiased.com which contributed in bringing down Dan Rather.

http://elitechoice.org/tag/di...

"In his MSNBC news program Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Olbermann named Bozell the "Worst Person in the World" several times in 2006 and 2007. In response, Bozell posted a press release on the MRC site claiming that Countdown Preaches Hate Speech"

So Bazell spreads lies all over the internet on behalf of his political backers and then when Olbermann calls him on it, Bazell accuses him of hate speech in print.

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Now the article makes more sense. In addition, Noel lists in his credits, contributions to the prestigious AmericanThinker. These are the people who brought us the mysterious Ed Lasky. Lasky spread lies about Obama during the election race and was exposed for the neoconservative he was, and the lies he was spreading, by the Nation

http://www.thenation.com/doc/...