Who owns western journalism

They have also failed several fact checks. Finally, during the Presidential election, they have promoted misinformation. See failed fact check below. Overall, we rate Western Journal Right Biased and Questionable based on story selection and editorial opinions that strongly favor the right and numerous failed fact checks.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Message Vote. Left vs. Also unmentioned is the Scaife double-dealing: For much of the time he wrote about Foster, Ruddy worked for the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, meaning that Scaife was essentially paying the WJC to promote one of his own reporters.

Ruddy then went on to found Newsmax with Scaife's financial assistance. Today the Center is lead [sic] by columnist and veteran broadcaster Floyd Brown.

The Western Center for Journalism is a vigorous watchdog that keeps a check on government abuse and the media. The Center believes strongly in open public debate. It also believes that informed public debate requires quality journalism and reporting. He's a longtime right-wing hitman -- the guy behind the notorious Willie Horton ad in -- who last year was peddling smears of Barack Obama and falsely suggesting that Obama is a Muslim.

So change "vigorous" to "vicious" on that "about" page, and you get a more accurate idea of what we can look forward to from Brown's WJC. Further, does anyone really believe that a smearmonger like Brown is interested in "quality journalism "? As long as it attacks Democrats in general and Obama in particular, that's good enough for Brown.

Indeed, the WJC's first major anti-Obama salvo under Brown is exactly what one would expect from an organization with a history of peddling discredited claims: an enthusiastic embrace of the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theory. In a March 24 email sent to those on Newsmax's mailing list, Brown and the WJC demonstrate WorldNetDaily-esque levels of obsession over the conspiracy capitalization and italics in original :.

Is the biggest political crime in American history taking place right before our eyes? He's dug in his heels. And the one pivotal question that those who attempt to dismiss the controversy cannot answer is:. If Barack Hussein Obama has nothing to hide, what's the problem? The more he resists, the more you have to wonder. Meanwhile the liberal press is trying to drag this story into a dark alley and bludgeon it to death.

Let's call-out the liberal media. The email goes on to insist that it's "Not Conspiracy Theories Just The Facts" -- then goes on to cite claims by WND columnist Janet Folger Porter that even it admits "may be convoluted, but it is well-worth examining" -- that Obama's visit to Pakistan in somehow proves he's not an American citizen because "No record of Obama holding an American passport prior to the one he received once becoming a U. Porter insisted that Obama "couldn't get into Pakistan with a U.

The center has been involved in an ongoing lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a tax audit it alleges was politically motivated. In March , the Center sent out an email to conservatives promoting conspiracy theories regarding Barack Obama 's citizenship. WorldNetDaily describes itself as 'a fiercely independent newssite committed to hard-hitting investigative reporting of government waste, fraud and abuse.

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