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The Center for Media and Public Affairs was founded in the mid 1980s by [[S. Robert Lichter]] and [[Linda Lichter]].<ref name="Naureckas">Jim Naureckas, [http://www.fair.org/reports/lichter-memo.html Study of Bias or Biased Study?: The Lichter Method and the Attack on PBS Documentaries"], Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, May 14, 1992.</ref> According to ''Salon.com'', "the seed money for [the] center was solicited by the likes of [[Pat Buchanan]] and [[Pat Robertson]]and money was received from Pew Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Council of La Raza, and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.".<ref name="Conason">Joe Conason, [http://www.salon.com/news/letters/2003/01/15/letter/ "Letter: A question of bias"], ''Salon'', January 15, 2003.</ref>