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The Media Research Center (MRC) was founded in 1987 by in the American press. The MRC has received financial support from several foundations including Bradley , Scaife , Olin , Castle Rock , Carthage and JM foundations. {Link without Title} PROJECTS In 1992, the MRC created the Free Market Project {Link without Title} to promote the culture of free enterprise and combat media spin on business and economic news. FMP's advisory board includes such well-known individuals as economists Walter Williams and Bruce Bartlett, as well as former CNN anchor David Goodnow. On June 16, 1998, the MRC founded the Conservative News Service, since renamed Cybercast News Service (alternatively, CNSNews.com), whose role was ostensibly to be a balanced source of news by covering stories that more mainstream news organizations ignored. CNSNews.com provides news articles for Townhall.com and other conservative websites for a subscription fee. Its leadership consists of president Brent Bozell and editor David Thibault. In the summer of 2005, Media Research Center launched NewsBusters, a blog site dedicated to "provide immediate exposure of liberal media bias, insightful analysis, constructive criticism and timely corrections to news media reporting." {Link without Title} CONTROVERSIES In July 2002, MRC and affiliate Parents Television Council (PTC) paid an Out-of-court Settlement ending a Lawsuit which had been launched by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in November 2000. WWE alleged 13 instances of Defamation , Copyright Infringement and interference with prospective business relations after PTC produced a fundraising video using unauthorized WWE footage, falsely claimed WWE was responsible for the murders of four children, and falsely claimed advertisers had pulled their commercials from the show. MRC paid $3.5 million. {Link without Title} MRC and PTC President Brent Bozell wrote in a lengthy public statement that "it was wrong to have stated or implied that the WWE or any of its programs caused these tragic deaths." {Link without Title} Media Research Center and David Thibault have been involved in questioning the validity of the circumstances in which Democratic Rep. John Murtha received his Purple Heart s as a response to his criticisms of the U.S. War In Iraq . {Link without Title} CRITICISMS '' Extra! '', the magazine of the media watch group FAIR , criticized the MRC in 1998 for alleged selective use of evidence--the MRC had complained, for example, that there was more coverage of government Death Squads in right-wing El Salvador than in left-wing Nicaragua , without mentioning that there were roughly a thousand times more extra-judicial killings in El Salvador. ''Extra!'' also characterized the MRC as wanting to force out of the media any opinions that it disagreed with, even tracking the off-screen political comments of actors in a project that the magazine said "bore an uncomfortable resemblance to ''Red Channels'', the McCarthy Era blacklisting journal." {Link without Title} The media watch group Media Matters has also repeatedly criticized the MRC, charging that they view the media "through a funhouse mirror that renders everything--even the facts themselves--as manifestations of insidious bias." {Link without Title} SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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