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Philly Reporter Sent to Cover Wall St. Protests Is Also a Media Matters Fellow

What would you think if a senior reporter for a major U.S. newspaper was also a fellow at the anti-Fox, anti-Glenn Beck, and frankly anti-conservative left-wing group Media Matters? As Fox recently pointed out, that‘s exactly what’s going on with Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch.

Bunch, who has been covering the Occupy Wall St. protests, admits the affiliation on his Twitter account:

Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch Is a Fellow at Media MattersThe New York Times notes the Media Matters association and calls him a “progressive journalist,” while noting the anti-Tea Party tone of his book:

In his new book, “The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama,” the progressive journalist Will Bunch serves up his own anatomy of the Tea Party movement, that loose agglomeration of right-wing insurgents, libertarians, conservatives, evangelicals, survivalists, gun-rights crusaders, antitax protesters, deficit hawks, antigovernment zealots, militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh “ditto heads,” Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers, and supporters of Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.

But it‘s where Bunch’s affiliation isn‘t mentioned that’s interesting, as Fox points out:

FoxNews.com was unable to find any mention of Bunch’s association with Media Matters on Philly.com, which hosts content from the Philadelphia Daily News and its rival, the Inquirer.

There is also no mention in the Daily News’ online edition of Bunch’s support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, which is suggested in his Twitter posts.

Sure enough, the “About Will Bunch” section on the paper’s website makes no mention of the association:

Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch Is a Fellow at Media Matters

And Keith Olbermann also failed to mention it while introducing Bunch’s recent guest appearance on “Countdown,” during which the progressive journalist talked about the protests:

“I’ve always written about the media, criticizing the media a lot from a progressive point of view,” he explained to Foxnews.com. “I think my editors are really proud to have someone writing with a point of view. I have a strong background, and I’m pretty good at identifying issues in the media. We think it’s good for dialogue and for selling papers.”

But what about compartmentalizing his opinions from his reporting?

“The Daily News is fairly unusual, we’re not that big on boundaries,” said Bunch. “The new editor, Larry Platt, encourages us to be more opinionated.”

Read the full article at FoxNews.com.

Comments (68)

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:04am

    How can anybody be in Journalism and be affiliated with a propaganda organization or have an agenda other than just reporting the facts. Clearly this guy and many other lame stream reporters do both. Is a shame the most sacred oath of journalism is no longer that. Wonder if Journalism schools even teach it anymore.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:15am

      He already belongs to a left wing group , its called “ THE MEDIA”

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    • DNC TALIBAN
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:24am

      He can’t be an objective reporter, he may as well find a new career.

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    • Nlitend1
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:49am

      I’ve never understood this recent phenomenon that permits opinion in journalism. It’s either fact or opinion and they have an obligation to identify it if they claim to be professionals. The other problem is that they choose which facts to present (like youtube deleting their videos). They should be held responsible and laws should be created to help us identify the truth. I was listening to Limbaugh the other day and he said that there was no question, absolutely no doubt that the wall street protesters were organized by the white house. He gave no facts, no proof, nothing a jury or an innocent listener could use to evaluate his assumption. It’s just the truth according to his big fat head. “This is what community organizers do.” Really, is that so? Maybe someone here knows what a community organizer does (besides ruining the country) because I have never actually met one.

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:00am

      Can’t make this poop up. What is a reporter? I was brought up being told it is a person, non-biased, that reported the news. Sort of who what when where and why. Non of this poop like Dan Rather did on Bush. Or NBC did with the exploding gas tanks. Cripes. Just the news please. DIP WADS!

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    • Enciloon
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:33am

      Hopefully you didn’t get to this point in life without the ability to tell the difference between a news reporter and a talk show host (limbaugh). Just as in an opinion page in a newspaper, it is all opinions. He is not there to present your news for you and it is not expected of him. A reporter for a paper is, as they are given access others do not have, so that we can get our news from them.

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    • touch
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:04pm

      He said they are not that big on boundaries. Here is a suggestion for you and your ilk. Why don’t you take yourself and your like minded friends to the nearest airport and take a one way flight to the Middle East and stay there!

      Real Americans can and will take care of our own boundaries.

      THANK YOU and GOODBYE!!!

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:05pm

      A global journalist, just what George Soros wants, he has about 30 or more of them, whole lame stream medias, and Huffington owns aol, and notice how aol, yahoo and other search engine all start to look the same on the home page, ACCIDENT

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:12pm

      How can you condemn the philly.com guy
      for giving his opinion?Almost every article I read
      here is an AP or Reuters article copied and pasted and
      the reporter adds his opinion or a few lines so
      they can claim a byline. You choose to read
      news from a source you trust but you can never
      fully believe anything you read. Nobodies unbiased.
      I do like the Blaze. FYI.

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    • WeeDontNeedNoSteeeenkinBadges
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:02pm

      “Philly Reporter Sent to Cover Wall St. Protests Is Also a Media Matters Fellow”

      Sorry, sorry. I really must … sorry, sorry! Sorry, everyone. The title should have been:
      “Philly Reporter Sent to Cover Wall St. Protests Is Also a Media Matters MOLE”
      (See what I mean, I just get carried away with this whole propaganda-media thing.)

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  • ares338
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:50am

    Media Matters huh? I wonder what slant we’ll see in his articles? Wink…wink….

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:00am

      it is driving me nuts that the media is repoting these protests as leaderless and spontaneous. I wish Glenn would issue a press statement with evidence that he talked about these protests 6 months ago, their leaders and objectives. Why are we allowing the media to lie to us so openly when the truth is out there?

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    • Nlitend1
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:58am

      There is nothing wrong with Media Matters…they expose lies (mostly from members of the right). It’s the same as NewsBusters, which has a decidedly right wing slant. Actually, I’ve been reading both for quite some time, and I’ve never seen NewsBusters attack the right, while Media Matters has the occasional left wing expose.

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    • Enciloon
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:38am

      The biggest problem with media matters is they have gotten to the point of absurd with what they consider a “lie”. If its said by conservative media edpecy fnc, it usually goes like this: fox news claims most amercicans don’t like to pay higher taxes. Truth: based on our studies of 5 Americans most Americans would love to pay higher taxes especially if they believe it will help to reelect the President, fund moveon.org etc. Not sure most of us would consider that a lie, nor their data to be what most of us would call “data”

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  • matinva
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:43am

    Wow! I saw this same guy coming out of Home Depot last week with a huge stack of plastic pails. Must be so he can carry Owebama’s water in the election next year.

    Zero credibility.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:51am

      Yawwwwwn…..Is this even news?….this is a given….dah…..that’s all.

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  • Kathleen3
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:42am

    The Philadelphia Inquirer has been on a fast and steady decline for quite some time. Anyone who lives in the area served by this paper realizes it is nothing more than a DNC publication, filled with rhetoric more commonly associated with Michael Moore than that one would expect from unbiased reporters.

    Go into any local store or market on a Sunday morning and you will see stacks of the Inquirer while most often the local paper has been sold out.

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  • momrules
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:38am

    I remember hearing Hillary Clinton say that she helped found MediaMatters. The people currently occupying the White House are all in on the game of hide the truth and with the willing participation of the MSM they are still lying to the American people. I have almost given up on Fox as a news source and now prefer getting real news via the internet, Glen Beck and Rush.

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  • thegodfather
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:37am

    Journalist… activist…..ignorant liberal stooge….union thug…..all the same.

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  • olddog
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:33am

    All recent elections have been to the right. For the first time ever conservatives have come together and protest in a group, the Tea Party. With things like this happening I can guarantee you that the majority of Americans are Not in favor of the left agenda any longer..

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:33am

    It’s rare to get an un-biased news report from any MSM outlet these days.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:29am

    CNS NEWS also a terrific news site.

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:24am

    There is a reason that so many newspapers are going bankrupt and people are switching the channels from NBC, ABC and CBS to Fox News and GBTV. The reason is Americans have lost faith in the media. They are losing loyal customers faster than Obama spends money.

    The liberal media can go ahead and do what they want, they cannot stop the free flow of information that website like The Blaze, Drudge Report, The Heritage Foundation and so many others provide. They cannot stop conservative talk radio and Cable TV. Their newspapers are being used to line bird cages and cat boxes and the only people watching their news channels are brainless twits who can’t think for themselves anyway.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:34am

      The major media is reporting this as spontaneous and leaderless. It is driving nuts. It is time forGlenn to release a press statement of how he documented this months ago; who is behind it and when it was planned!

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  • olddog
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:22am

    Are all the matters people Gay? I can’t call it Media Matters because it is no more media than the rest of the leftists supposed News channels..The leftists have their opinion and the other 90% of us have ours..

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  • Miami
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:21am

    Crop any images lately…?

    Instead of letting the video play to show the protest for what it is, It much more fun to frame it into a clean homogenized mass of innocent do gooders.

    If they really agree with the protesters why not show the Marxist, Socialist and anti Capitalist signs?

    Oh yeah we don’t want to let the truth get out.

    Who watches this MORON?

    Who believes these idiots or the media any more?

    Its like they write or speak for themselves….

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  • love the kids
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:10am

    Why do you think that the Progressive journalist was sent to cover the “Progressive, Liberal Rally’s ” on wall street?
    How can anyone trust the mainstream media anymore?

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:06am

    He will be the exposed as a villain at a later date for his inability to recognize what is right and what is wrong.

    We need to run some comparison commercials of the Tea Party vs this Riot.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:04am

    So this is Not a NEWSpaper , it is an opinionpaper. Therefore it should get NO journalistic protection .All this editor did was provide Liberals, Socialists, Progressives, Communists, Anarchists, DEMOCRATS ALL with a platform of hate. NO NEWS there.

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  • manjodad
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:02am

    And your point is? Aside from demonstrating the obvious to people who are already well informed this tells me nothing that is new. However, that said, it does prove, once again, that the media is biased left and the only ones who don’t believe that are those who have eyes but refuse to see. By pointing out again and again this type of association, one can only hope that eventually those few on the left who have not competely closed their mind will wake up and realize just how bad it is.

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  • timej31
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:00am

    And yet another bearded 60′s radical terrorist. Notice the international terrorist symbol they all have in common. Beards.

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:59am

    What’s New? I live within 40 miles of Philly; and it is a city of DRONES, pretty much wholly owned by the Unions, and Political Elite.

    Chicago East.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:59am

    Pepper spray will work on him also.

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  • War_Eagle
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:55am

    I used to get the PDN every day because it has the best sports section I’ve ever seen.

    But when it comes to news and opinion, they don’t even try to hide their extreme left wing bias.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:54am

    .
    Why do all these lefty guy’s look like they need to get laid?……Smile for a change…….

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:54am

    It’s crazy that these coddled kids with Ipads and Iphones and money in their pockets are railing against the very entrepreneurs who developed all their goodies in our CAPITALIST society. We gave them the cushy lifestyle they are used to living! TAKE AWAY all the luxury items and their electronic devices and they will not survive.
    You KNEW they would BRING IN THE union guys, right? Talk about ENTITLEMENT CROWDS? They think they are a left wing “Tea Party? Van, get a CLUE!

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  • 338lapua
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:53am

    This story speaks to EXACTLY why no-one listens to the old media anymore. They have sold out. Rationalize this any way you wish……..
    Your days are truly numbered.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:49am

    We have known the left leaning propaganda machinery of the administrations media is this way, they do what Mr Obama decrees automatically, and so here one more is following his orders like a mind numbed robot should.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:44am

    A giant butt head being interviewed by another giant butt head about some left wing rag sending him to NY so that he can tell us how wonderful the unwashed, uninformed, unemployed, and the professional “give me more” crowd is and how terrible the greedy, selfish, and evil capitalists are.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:34am

      RICKFROMILLINOIS,

      You described it perfectly. Merci! AND you did it so politely.
      I wonder if the “butt head” trolls will be logging on to disagree with you.

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