Newsmax’s borderline incestous relationship with Dick Morris has apparently become even more so.
As we detail over at Media Matters, Newsmax is apparently hosting the website for Morris’ new group, Super PAC for America. The WHOIS file for the website’s domain gives a Newsmax phone number and email address as contacts (though the person named as a contact is conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who does not appear to be a Newsmax employee), and the site’s favicon is the same blue N used by Newsmax.
We haven’t seen any stories on Morris’ PAC at Newsmax, but even if there weren’t any, providing even technical services to a partisan organization pretty much eliminates any pretense Newsmax may have had to fairness as a news organization — and all the more so for failing to disclose its involvement with the PAC to its readers.
Giving positive coverage to Morris’ PAC is one thing (and, arguably, expected from Newsmax); hosting its website is something else entirely.