David Brock

David Brock (born November 2, 1962 in Washington, DC ) is an American journalist , author and founder of the media group Media Matters for America and a political activist for the Democrats .

Origin and education

Brock grew up in Wood-Ridge , New Jersey, in a strict Catholic adoptive family. He was in various Catholic schools, such as the Our Lady of the Assumption School and the Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus . He studied at the University of California, Berkeley , where he started working as a reporter for the student magazine The Daily Californian . In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Berkeley. Brock is gay, which he made public in 1997. His coming out contributed to his parallel change of political side.

Work as a conservative publicist

Brook worked from 1986 in the environment of various conservative foundations and magazines, such as Insight on the News, which is part of The Washington Times , and the Heritage Foundation . In 1992 Brock was known for a critical report on the affair of the appointment of the black Clarence Thomas as constitutional judge and his alleged harassment of an employee named Anita Hill in the American Spectator . In 1993 Brock published a book about the affair, The Real Anita Hill , which became a bestseller. A report by Brooks about Paula Jones and sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton in the 1994 Spectator also triggered the so-called Troopergate scandal .

Political realignment

Three years later Brock surprised everyone with a relatively friendly biography of Hillary Clinton called The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. With an article published in Esquire in 1997 and the book Blinded by the Right (2002) Brock made a turn to the political left. He retracted substantial allegations previously made against the Clintons.

Fonts (selection)

Anita Hill (1993)

• The Real Anita Hill . Free Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-02-904656-2
• The Seduction of Hillary Rodham . 1996, Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83770-3
• Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. 2002, Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4000-4728-4
• The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. 2004, Crown. ISBN 978-1-4000-4875-5
• Free Ride: John McCain and the Media with Paul Waldman. 2008, Anchor. ISBN 0-307-27940-5
• The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine with Ari Rabin-Havt. 2012, Anchor. ISBN 978-0-307-94768-0
• Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your Government 2015, Twelve. ISBN 978-1455533763

Web links

• Media Matters for America
• Booknotes interview with Brock 1993.
• Anti-Drudge, Brock Profile in Guernica Magazine
• David Brock and Tucker Carlson at Slate 1997
• About David Brock in The American Spectator 1994

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reporter Apologizes For Clinton Sex Article , CNN , March 10, 1998.
2. ↑ Brock, David. "Blinded by the right: the conscience of an ex-conservative" , p. 14. Random House , 2003. ISBN 1-4000-4728-5 .
3. ↑ Alicia C. Shepard, "Spectator's Sport" , American Journalism Review , May 1995..
4. ^ David Brock, "Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man," Esquire , July 1997.