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Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

6/05/2002

Plea for Support
We are seeking financial support to launch and maintain a web site dedicated to monitoring Tennessee news media for bias and inaccurate reporting. The proposed web site will use the Internet to rapidly gather and publicize examples of media bias, document and refute factual errors, and expose conflicts-of-interest and hidden agendas that often color the 'news' and can have an adverse impact on public policy.

The web site would monitor both print and broadcast media. The site will require monthly financial support in the hundreds of dollars, partly for operations and partly for publicizing its existence.

Similar web sites now monitor the hidden agendas and inaccuracies of such papers as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and many others, and provide readers a powerful tool to assess whether what they are reading or hearing in the dominant press is accurate and unbiased. If you wish to support this project, please contact me at the email link in the "about this site" box. In addition, this site you are now reading is reaching a fast-growing readership but remains in need of a small amount of increased financial support. The "about this site" box explains how you can support it. Thank you.