The link at the bottom of the “Editor’s Picks” collection of outside stories at the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters website right now is an item from “Sydney Bloom, The Cable Game.”
The MRC won’t tell you this, but The Cable Game is a sock-puppet blog run by Fox News.
Gabriel Sherman reported in his book “The Loudest Voice in the Room” that former Fox News chief Roger Ailes created The Cable Game as a way to respond to his critics and those of Fox News. Conservative columnist Jim Pinkerton was enlisted to ghost-write the blog, and it seems “Sydney Bloom” is the nom de plume under which Pinkerton is writing the blog (which, yes, is still ongoing despite Ailes’ death).
In a 2015 post, “Bloom” mocked the idea that the blog was being directed by Ailes and Pinkerton, but offered no proof to refute the claim or any evidence that “Syndey Bloom” is a real, live boy (or girl). “Bloom” offers only a Gravatar link as a contact, which is not proof of anything.
The MRC’s aversion to anonymous sources when used by the “liberal media” shows itself to be especially hypocritical with this link to a blog that not only is written under a fake name, the fake name in question is operating under the direction of Fox News. The MRC not only does not know who writes The Cable Game, it does not care as long as it continues to serve up media-bashing that conforms to its right-wing anti-media agenda.