From John K. Carlisle at the National Legal and Policy Center, which bills itself as “promoting ethics in public life”:

The long-term decline in newspaper circulation presents the conservative movement with an excellent opportunity to increase its influence with the media. …If conservative nonprofit organizations significantly increase their use of investigative reporting, then the movement will be able to partly offset the liberal bias of the mainstream media. Despite their political agenda, newspapers and TV networks like scandals simply because they make great headlines. Experience shows that they will cover scandals exposed by conservatives.      

So, newspapers: bad, unless we can manipulate them. Go ethics! Carlisle continues:

The Left understands the importance of nonprofit investigative journalism as well. And, unfortunately, the Left has more money and is rushing to fill this media vacuum. Herbert and Marion Sandler, liberal billionaires with close ties to George Soros, announced in October that they will donate $10 million annually for at least three years and maybe more to create a nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to investigative reporting. The organization, called ProPublica, will be led by Paul Steiger, former editor in chief at the Wall Street Journal, and employ 24 journalists. When it starts operations in January 2008, ProPublica will be the nation’s largest nonprofit center for investigative journalism.ProPublica will most certainly push a liberal agenda. The Sandlers are fervent activists. In 2004, they gave MoveOn.org $2.5 million and, along with Soros, help fund the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank established in 2003 to counter the influence of the conservative Heritage Foundation.To hear Herb Sandler speak, the mission of ProPublica will be strictly nonpartisan and “on the side of the underdog.” According to Sandler, “I am deeply opposed to wealthy people who exploit the poor, powerful people who prey on the weak, and government representatives who betray the trust of the people they supposedly represent.”  

Protecting citizens against corrupt government…what an unethical bastard.