Journalist and Media Activist

David Brock

1 article 1997

David Brock is a journalist and political operative who founded the liberal media watchdog organization Media Matters for America in 2004. Originally a prominent conservative investigative journalist in the 1990s known for his work at The American Spectator, he later publicly broke with the right. His 1997 contribution to The Weekly Standard reflected on the culture of political scandal journalism.

MY SCANDALMONGERING PROBLEM -- AND OURS

January 27, 1997 · Blog

The events of the past week -- President Clinton fighting a sexual harassment suit in the Supreme Court, Speaker Gingrich under investigation for violating tax laws and providing false information to Congress, and top House Democrats implicated in the illegal dissemination to the press of a tape of…