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'Reed Irvine' (September 29, 1922-November 16, 2004) was an economist turned media watchdog with known conservative sympathies. He founded the conservative Accuracy in Media, and remained its head for 35 years.
Notable events were during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, "he accused CNN and its reporter Peter Arnett of airing "Saddam Hussein's version of the truth. There's no way his reporting is helping America win this war".[1]
During the Clinton administration, in 1998 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, he claimed there was a conspiracy within the Republican Party to "suppress investigations of Clinton administration scandals." He noted, "Conspiracy is a word that has been given a very bad connotation -- it's become synonymous with 'kooky,' " he told a Post reporter. "But really it has a very good connotation." In other words, he elaborated, some conspiracy theories are valid. But not Hillary Clinton's notion of a vast right-wing conspiracy. "She's kooky," he said.".[2]

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Awards

★ George Washington medal, Freedom Foundation, 1980

★ Ethics in Journalism award, World Media Association, 1987.

Links

★ Media Watchdog Reed Irvine, 82 ''Washington Post.'' November 18, 2004

★ Why Don't the Media Uncover Cover-ups? AIM Report, December 1998.

★ New York Times Obituary: Reed Irvine, 82, the Founder Of a Media Criticism Group, Michael T. Kaufman, November 19, 2004.

References

★ Profile in Marquis Who's Who on the Web