Irvine, Reed

Reed Irvine see Acc in media

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el mozote

The conservative press-watch organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none;">Accuracy in Media</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> accused the <i style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Times<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and <i style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Post<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of timing their stories to release them just before the congressional debate; five months later, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Accuracy in Media devoted an entire edition of its <i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">AIM Report<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> to Bonner, in which its editor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Irvine" title="Reed Irvine" style="background: none rgb(255, 204, 102); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Reed Irvine</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> declared that "Mr. Bonner had been worth a division to the communists in Central America"<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.<sup id="cite_ref-CJR_15-2" class="reference" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre#cite_note-CJR-15" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Enders" title="Thomas Enders" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none;">Thomas Enders</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> attacked Bonner and Guillermoprieto before a Senate committee, stating that though there had been a battle between guerrillas and the army, "no evidence could be found to confirm that government forces systematically massacred civilians." Enders also repeated the claim that only 300 people had lived in Mozote, making it impossible for the death toll to have reached that reported in the <i style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Times<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and <i style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Post<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">stories.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On February 8, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams" title="Elliott Abrams" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none;">Elliott Abrams</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, told the committee that "it appears to be an incident that is at least being significantly misused, at the very best, by the guerrillas".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a><font style=" color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Salvadoran army and government leaders denied the reports and officials of the Reagan administration called them "gross exaggerations."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre#cite_note-CJR-15" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> The Associated Press reported that "the U.S. Embassy disputed the reports, saying its own investigation had found ... that no more than 300 people had lived in El Mozote."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre#cite_note-ap-12feb82-14" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>

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Reed Irvine was a conservative economist who founded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media">Accuracy in Media</a> in 1969 while working for the U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal_Reserve_Board" title="Federal Reserve Board">Federal Reserve Board</a>. Board member of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_the_Defense_of_Freedom" title="Council for the Defense of Freedom">Council for the Defense of Freedom</a>, and columnist for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a>. On November 16, 2004 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reedirvine.net/">Reed Irvine</a> passed away.

According to a biographical note "he holds degree from the University of Utah, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is publisher of the AIM Report, and has previously written a syndicated column, and done a daily radio commentary, Media Monitor, with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cliff_Kincaid" title="Cliff Kincaid">Cliff Kincaid</a>. He is also Chairman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Accuracy_in_Academia" title="Accuracy in Academia">Accuracy in Academia</a>, which he founded in 1985. Mr. Irvine is a popular lecturer, and has frequently appeared on radio and TV programs including Crossfire, MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, Nightline, Nightwatch, Good Morning America, Viewpoint, and The Larry King Show." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.aim.org/who_we_are/who_we_are_index.html">[1]</a>

"After more than 30 years of publicizing the media's irresponsible behavior, Mr. Irvine has become the nation's foremost media critic and authority on media bias," his biographical note states.

On December 30, 2003, Irvive suffered what AIM described as "a serious stroke" and in an update to supporters reported that he had been transferred in mid-January 2004 to "a sub-acute rehabilitation facility near his home in Silver Spring, Maryland". "He is scheduled to undergo several months of intensive therapy that should enable him to regain a considerable degree of mobility and speech," the note stated. Irvine died November 16, 2004.

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<li>Accuracy in Media, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aim.org/who_we_are/who_we_are_index.html">Reed Irvine, Chairman Emeritus</a>, undated, accessed May 2004.</li>

<li>Political Research Associates, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030608143208/%68ttp://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-06.htm">Accuracy In Media</a>", Public Eye - Group Watch, undated, accessed January 2004. (A similar article is available at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/aim.php">http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/aim.php</a>.)</li>

<li>Valeko, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/25/173/40630">Let's learn about Accuracy in Media!</a>", Kuro5hin, June 25th, 2002.</li>

<li>Accuracy in Media, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aim.org/">Reed Irvine Stroke Update</a>", accessed January 30, 2004.</li>

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I<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reed_Irvine" title="Reed Irvine">rvine</a> in 1969, when Irvine called for sedition charges to be brought against <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society" title="Students for a Democratic Society">Students for a Democratic Society</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Black_Panthers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Black Panthers (page does not exist)">Black Panthers</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progressive_Labor_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Progressive Labor Party (page does not exist)">Progressive Labor Party</a>, arguing, "If you're going to halt treason, you've got to do it while it's small." [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Village_Voice" title="Village Voice">Village Voice</a>, January 21, 1986]

In the 1970s, Irvine endeared himself to the New Right by alleging that the corporate media were a propaganda tool for the Soviet <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KGB&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="KGB (page does not exist)">KGB</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>. In 1982, AIM attacked <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_York_Times" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> reporter <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Raymond_Bonner" title="Raymond Bonner">Raymond Bonner</a> for his reports (later proven accurate--see Extra!, January/February 1993) about the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=El_Mozote&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="El Mozote (page does not exist)">El Mozote</a> massacre. Along with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> editorial page, AIM succeeded in pressing the Times to pull Bonner from his <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">Salvadoran</a> beat.

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- CNP Board of Governors (1982). Chairman of Accuracy in Media (AIM), Editor of the AIM Report, and a member of University Professors for Academic Order (UPAO). It is most interesting to note that other members of the UPAO include such other prominent figures as: Dr. George C. Roche III, Dr. Howard Hurwitz of the UPAO Board, and Carl W. Salser - all of the National Council on Educational Research, governing body of NIE; Russell Kirk; Donald Senese - Assistant Secretary of Education; Dr. Robert L. Schuettinger, co-author of Scholars, Dollars and Public Policy; New Frontiers in Corporate Giving, along with Ernest W. Lefever and Raymond English of the Lefever run Ethics and Public Policy Center; Frank Gable-a long-time activist in the AQUARIAN CABAL; and, lastly, United States Senator John East. [Miller 6]

"Then there are 'media watchdog' organizations such as Accuracy in Media (AIM). Many persons assume such groups are watching out for the public's interests. Not according to writer Michael Collins Piper, who in 1990 made public that AIM founder Reed Irvine was paid $37,000 a year as an 'advisor for the division of international finance' of the Federal Reserve System. Noting that many Fed members also belong to the secret societies, Piper wrote, 'To this day, Irvine and AIM never touch on any subject which is sensitive to the interests of the international Establishment: whether it be the Bilderberger group, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations or the truth about the privately owned Federal Reserve." [Marrs 106]

Several of AIM's board members have intelligence backgrounds. During WWII Reed Irvine worked in Marine Intelligence; John McLean was employed by the CIA; and Abraham Kalish taught communications at the Defense Intelligence School. Bernard Yoh also has a history of intelligence and military work. He is/was a professor of psychological warfare at the Air Force University in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a hitman for the Shanghai police during the Sino-Japanese war and organized the South Vietnamese counterinsurgency forces during the Vietnam War. In the 1964 Brazilian coup, Yoh advised the Brazilian generals.(2,6)... Bernard Yoh contributes regularly to the Unification Church publication Rising Tide and is a strong supporter of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the South Korean government.(11)

Elbridge Dubrow was a former ambassador to Vietnam. David Lichtenstein was a senior attorney with the Federal Communications Commission.(2,7) Adm. Thomas H. Moorer was the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under president Richard Nixon. In that position he had Naval Intelligence agents tap Henry Kissinger's phone and remove documents from Nixon's desk.(20) He was also on the national advisory board of the now-defunct <a href="http://watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html#wgf" style=" text-decoration: underline; color: blue;">Western Goals Foundation</a>, a private domestic intelligence agency founded by former Congressman Larry MacDonald in 1979.(20) Moorer is the vice president of the American Security Council.(22)

Clare Booth Luce was a former ambassador to Switzerland and former member of Congress.(2,7) She was also a member of Ronald Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.(23)...Clare Booth Luce is a Dame of the Knights of Malta.(15) She was a director of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a fundraising group set up in 1985 by the Washington Times, a paper owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, to provide funds to the contras.(12,15,17,18) Luce was on the Board of the Washington Times. [Henry R. Luce was initiated into the Order of Skull & Bones in 1920. (Sutton)]

William Simon (CFR) is on the advisory committee of AmeriCares and was on the national council of the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA). Simon was also the chair of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund and is a member of the Knights of Malta.(12,15,18) <a href="http://watch.pair.com/database2.html#teller" style=" text-decoration: underline; color: blue;">Dr. Edward Teller</a> (CFR) was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger as of 1983. The Committee is an anticommunist organization which has advocated strict containment policies towards the Soviet Union.(21) Teller also created the H-Bomb.(20) Teller was also on the advisory board of the Western Goals Foundation and served with the CPTS.(20) [<a href="http://www.pir.org/gw/aim.txt" style=" text-decoration: underline; color: blue;">Interhemispheric Resource Center:AIM</a>]

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<h2>Accuracy in Media</h2>

Reed Irvine founded Accuracy in Media in 1969; Irvine said in his 1984 book "Media Mischief and Misdeeds" that it was prompted by "disgust with the media -- particularly television for pouring gasoline on the flamse of riots in our cities and turmoil on our campuses." It was among the first groups to focus on attacking the "liberal media." In 1975, AIM began purchasing stock in major media companies, which allowed Irvine to attend their annual meetings and make AIM's views known. In 1985, Irvine founded <a href="http://www.academia.org/">Accuracy in Academia</a> to apply the AIM approach to education.

In the 1990s, AIM was among the major promoters of conspiracy theories involving the Clinton administration, particularly regarding the death of Vincent Foster. A January 1999 AIM <a href="http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/scaife-dispels-myths-in-kennedy-interview/">article</a>, for example, fawned over an interview given by Richard Mellon Scaife -- a <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=1374">major funder</a> of AIM -- calling him "candid, accessible, enigmatic — even surprising." It uncritically repeated Scaife's claim that "he knows Foster didn’t die the way the official investigations said and that this is the Rosetta Stone to the Clinton administration," as well as pushed the <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp">debunked</a> Clinton body count, stating that Scaife "believes there is a connection between the Clinton administration and the death of Ron Brown, and refers to the list of 60 or more people, including eight of Clinton’s former bodyguards, who have died mysteriously."

Reed Irvine suffered a stroke in 2003 and died in November 2004. His son, Don Irvine, succeeded him as AIM chairman.

In recent years, the most prominent public voice of AIM has been <a href="http://www.usasurvival.org/bio.html">Cliff Kincaid</a>, editor of the "AIM Report." Kincaid first came to prominence <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P247_69030">working</a> for the right-wing Citizens United under notorious smearmonger Floyd Brown. Kincaid also operates an organizaton, <a href="http://www.usasurvival.org/">America's Survival</a>, designed to attack global governance organizations like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. Kincaid frequently rails against the U.N. and world governance, as well as communism and homosexuality, in his AIM columns.

<h4>Last update: 4/26/2008</h4>

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