Media Monitoring

http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/

This is very interesting. In class discussion and in our class readings, we delved ino the how the media, namely the news, can be bias towards a certain perspective. This organization called Media Matters is a non profit which extracts the conservatively bias news and sheds light on its bias. It goes a step further as well. This organization actually notifies activists, journalists and the general public when there is a misconception and then distributes articles and information which rebuts the primary argument. I think these types of organizations are very important. I was skeptical of them, and still am for I feel I have little knowledge on them, as I have recently stumbled across them. However, on their home page, I did read reactions of FOX news, as well as other news mediums like the New York Times. Their home page is scattered with a wide range of topics, like immigration, global warming and more specific news stories, where they came from and how they are bias. Organizations like these are necesary in my mind, to keep the media in check, however it does get hard when figuring out if they are just as bias as the news stories they are reporting against.