January 24, 2010 06:26 PM UTC

Jon Caldara Cuts Out The Middleman

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• by: Colorado Pols

As most of you know, the conservative online “news” outlet Face the State had its plug unceremoniously pulled last summer by its key funder, and since then there’s been a bit of a gap in the echo-chamber messaging capability of the right.

Well yes, that’s true, you can probably make the argument that the gap was still there when Face the State was around, since they weren’t very good at this stuff (see: plug unceremoniously pulled).

We’re pleased to report that the gap has now been plugged by the innocuously-named “Colorado News Agency,” a decently constructed news website with evidently regular updates on state politics. Everything seems very much on the level, you could imagine yourself browsing the even-keeled pages of State Bill Colorado or the Statesman–until you get to the one labeled “About.”

The Colorado News Agency, a project of the Independence Institute, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-interest news and information site covering Colorado’s State Capitol.

Oh, okay then. So the next time you read a Colorado “News” Agency story like the one titled “Capitol rally denounces federal agenda for health-care reform,” which reported on last week’s “protest promoted by the Golden-based free-market think tank Independence Institute,” at least you won’t have to read all the way to the bottom to discover, parenthetically, that “Colorado News Agency is project of the Independence Institute.” Because now you know!

H/T: Squarestate.net, where at least they’re not trying to BS you.