Conservative Transparency for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy [1]
Submitted by John Stauber [2] on
Conservative Transparency [3] is a new website from the Media Matters Action Network [4] of Media Matters for America [5]. Although it is partisan, it serves as an excellent complement to the Front Groups [6] portal and astroturf [7] information on CMD's SourceWatch [8] website. According to the Washington Post [9], Conservative Transparency "uses Internal Revenue Service [10] filings to track the major financial backers and beneficiaries of conservative activist groups. ... For example, the Web site's listing for FreedomWorks [11] Inc., which has helped organize anti-tax and anti-health reform protests, shows the group brought in more than $4 million in 2007, much of it from wealthy conservative donors such as the Richard and Helen DeVos [12] Foundation. The Web site is unequivocally liberal, taking aim only at conservative organizations." Conservative Transparency [3] is actually not as new as it seems; it is the successor to Media Transparency [13] which Media Matters Action Network acquired from the Minneapolis-based Cursor.Org [14] in late 2008.