Center for Media and Public Affairs, Inc.

Washington, DC 20037

Publishes NewsWatch, which rips on the "liberal" press.

May 21, 2018

CMPA at SourceWatch.org

http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Center_for_Media_and_Public_Affairs

Michael Massing
New York Review of Books
November 30, 2005

The End of News?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18516

...In 1985, Lichter and his wife Linda, with the financial support of such conservative foundations as Scaife and Olin, formed the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a research institute that, while presenting itself as nonpartisan, sought to document instances of liberal bias on the networks and in newspapers. Its reports helped complement the Reagan administration's efforts to portray the press as out of step with "mainstream America." The impact of these efforts was apparent in journalists' often uncritical coverage of such issues as supply-side economics and the abusive activities of the Salvadoran military, the Nicaraguan contras, and other forces allied with the US in Central America...