User Profile for David Brock (dbrock)

Bio: Former conservative media insider and author of the New York Times best-seller “Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative,” David Brock currently serves as President and CEO of Media Matters for America, a progressive research and information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the media. He recently published his fourth political book, “The Republican Noise Machine, Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy,” detailing the 30-year effort by the right to establish a conservative media machine. Brock began his career among conservative media in the late 1980s as a writer and senior editor at Insight magazine, a sister publication of The Washington Times. He was a John M. Olin Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an investigative writer at The American Spectator. He formally renounced his ties to the conservative movement in June 1997. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

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