David Brock

David Brock was a prominent conservative journalist of the 1990s who in 1998 became a liberal and now works to dismantle the conservative media "machine" of which he was once a part. He tells his personal story in his memoir Blinded by the Right and describes how it operates in The Republican Noise Machine. His work on the latter book led him to found Media Matters for America, a non-profit organization that describes itself as a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."http://mediamatters.org/etc/about.html

External links

• Media Matters for America
• Renew the Fairness Doctrine - a campaign lead by Brock to resurrect the fairness doctrine.
• BuzzFlash Interview of David Brock
• David Brock Interview, "All Things Considered," National Public Radio (July 2, 2001)
• David Brock, "The Real Anita Hill," The American Spectator (March 1992) (unofficial site)
• David Brock, "His Cheatin’ Heart," The American Spectator (January 1994)

Sites critical of David Brock

• Ramesh Ponnuru, "The Real David Brock," National Review (May 10, 2001)
• Hendrik Hertzberg, "Can you forgive him? A right-wing conspirator comes clean," New Yorker (March 11, 2002)
• Bruce Bawer, "Turn, Turn, Turn" Washington Post (book review of "Blinded by the Right") (March 17, 2002)
• Timothy Noah "David Brock, Liar: A lifelong habit proves hard to break," Slate (March 27, 2002)
• Christopher Hitchens, "The Real David Brock," Slate (May 9, 2002)
• David Horowitz, "Believe David Brock at your own risk," Salon (April 17, 2002)
• "Brock, Horowitz and the anti-gay slur." Chad Conway responds to David Horowitz, Salon (April 30, 2002)
• Laura Kipnis, "Brock Attack: The formerly right-wing shark behind Media Matters," Slate (May 18, 2004)