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Conservative Transparency [6] is a new website from the Media Matters Action Network [7] of Media Matters for America [8]. Although it is partisan, it serves as an excellent complement to the Front Groups [9] portal and astroturf [10] information on CMD's SourceWatch [11] website. According to the Washington Post [12], Conservative Transparency "uses Internal Revenue Service [13] filings to track the major financial backers and beneficiaries of conservative activist groups. ... For example, the Web site's listing for FreedomWorks [14] Inc., which has helped organize anti-tax and anti-health reform protests, shows the group brought in more than $4 million in 2007, much of it from wealthy conservative donors such as the Richard and Helen DeVos [15] Foundation. The Web site is unequivocally liberal, taking aim only at conservative organizations." Conservative Transparency [6] is actually not as new as it seems; it is the successor to Media Transparency [16] which Media Matters Action Network acquired from the Minneapolis-based Cursor.Org [17] in late 2008.
Links:
[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/4/john-stauber
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics/right-wing
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/lobbying
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/think-tanks
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2009%2F11%2F8670%2Fconservative-transparency-vast-right-wing-conspiracy&linkname=Conservative%20Transparency%20for%20the%20Vast%20Right%20Wing%20Conspiracy
[6] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Conservative_Transparency
[7] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media_Matters_Action_Network
[8] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media_Matters_for_America
[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_Groups
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/astroturf
[11] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch
[12] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110300372.html
[13] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Internal_Revenue_Service
[14] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FreedomWorks
[15] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_DeVos
[16] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media_Transparency
[17] http://www.Cursor.org