David Brock accuses N.Y. Times of anti-Clinton bias
By DYLAN BYERS |Politico.com
8/20/13 8:49 AM EDT
David Brock, the chairman of both Media Matters for America and American Bridge super PAC, has written an open letter to The New York TImes expressing his "concern about a recent string of reports and columns ... that have done nothing but use false pretenses to cast a shadow on Bill and Hillary Clinton."
Brock highlights the Times' Aug. 13 report on “unease” over finances and management at the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation ("an exercise in evidence-free speculation," according to Brock) and two recent columns from Maureen Dowd that Brock says "reinforce her long pattern of using hollow caricatures to attack the Clintons (and the former first family in general)."
Brock then calls on the Times to: "Correct the record regarding errors of fact and context in the Foundation news story ... Refrain from negatively pre-judging the Clintons in the manner of your political editor ... Correct the anti-Clinton animus consistently exhibited by one of your columnists; and ... Resist the temptation to create purely speculative news in your new Clinton 'beat.'"
The full letter, obtained early by POLITICO's Mike Allen and forthcoming in Playbook:
(More here.)
8/20/13 8:49 AM EDT
David Brock, the chairman of both Media Matters for America and American Bridge super PAC, has written an open letter to The New York TImes expressing his "concern about a recent string of reports and columns ... that have done nothing but use false pretenses to cast a shadow on Bill and Hillary Clinton."
Brock highlights the Times' Aug. 13 report on “unease” over finances and management at the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation ("an exercise in evidence-free speculation," according to Brock) and two recent columns from Maureen Dowd that Brock says "reinforce her long pattern of using hollow caricatures to attack the Clintons (and the former first family in general)."
Brock then calls on the Times to: "Correct the record regarding errors of fact and context in the Foundation news story ... Refrain from negatively pre-judging the Clintons in the manner of your political editor ... Correct the anti-Clinton animus consistently exhibited by one of your columnists; and ... Resist the temptation to create purely speculative news in your new Clinton 'beat.'"
The full letter, obtained early by POLITICO's Mike Allen and forthcoming in Playbook:
(More here.)
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