Media Matters: Left, Locked, Loaded, and Gunning For The Right

POLITICO's Michael Calderone:  Media Matters [became convinced] that it needed to not only monitor other media but to do its own original reporting. On Monday, Joe Strupp, who covered the press for 11 years with Editor & Publisher magazine, will launch a new media blog after signing on as the group's first investigative reporter. ... Media Matters was launched with about $2 million in seed money from wealthy liberal donors who shared Brock's vision of combating what he called in a book 'The Republican Noise Machine.' Assistance also came from the John Podesta-led Center for American Progress ... The National Democratic Network, a think tank and advocacy organization, and progressive activist organization MoveOn.org, have also helped fund Media Matters. ... While Media Matters president Eric Burns and senior fellow Eric Boehlert are more visible presences on cable news and talk radio, founder David Brock remains chief executive and a major presence in the organization.