Republican Attack continues on Center for Investigative Journalism, and may lead to other banned partnerships.

The Center for Investigative Journalism is a nonpartisan organization that offers its stories free to mainstream media outlets. It’s not liberal leaning in any way shape of form. But Republicans consider the cold hard truth, or the reality based competing story, as liberal. So it must be stopped, and can be if Republicans can sell the public on the absurd comparison to right wing groups like the MacIver Institute.

Rep. John Nygren said Democrats would support removing a news organization they viewed as being right-leaning.

Here's the latest from Greg Neumann at WKOW:

I'm going to agree with Charlie Sykes on this no brainer (so don’t give him too much credit):

Journal Times: A conservative radio talk show host … bashed a move to quash the Center for Investigative Journalism on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus … The state budget amendment would also prohibit UW employees from doing any work related to the news center.

WTMJ-AM radio host Charlie Sykes called the move ``a vindictive attack on a journalistic operation on ideological grounds.’’ Sykes said the budget provision ``should especially appall those of us in the conservative media.’’

``Imagine how we would have reacted if Jim Doyle and Democrat legislature had passed legislation targeting conservative talk radio or any of the independent new media watchdog groups that have arisen in recent years,’’ Sykes wrote.

He went on to praise the center, saying it does good work that irritates conservatives and liberals alike.  ``Part of its job is to harass and annoy those in power and ask difficult questions and that makes political enemies no both sides of the aisle,’’ Sykes said. ``That’s what a free press does.’’