One of Colorado’s liberal watchdogs has ceased to bark.
Colorado Media Matters on Monday closed its doors as its parent organization in Washington, D.C., plans more efficient expansions into more states, state editorial director Bill Menezes told The Denver Post.
A new model “will allow us to launch this in other states where they were clamoring for it,” he said.
Media Matters officials in Washington did not return calls seeking comment Wednesday.
The group’s Colorado office, home to five employees at its closure, spent three years red-flagging “misinformation and conservative information not labeled as such” in newspapers and on television and radio, Menezes said.
One of the website’s most frequent targets was libertarian think-tank leader Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute in Golden and host of a radio talk show.
Caldara said he was “absolutely heartbroken.”
He quipped that the Colorado Media Matters staff made up half his audience.
“I feel like I’m losing a stalker girlfriend,” Caldara said.
