Reed Irvine

Reed Irvine (September 29, 1922 – November 16, 2004) was an economist who founded the media watchdog organization Accuracy in Media, and remained its head for 35 years. Irvine was motivated by his early perception that established news media from the dominant television news media to large city newspaper reporting was colored and biased in favor of a socialist perspective. He became concerned that this dominant perspective was shaping the way the dominant media reported foreign news and events.

Notable commentaries focused on the El Salvador Civil War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Clinton administration.

Life

Reed John Irvine was born in Salt Lake City on Sept. 29, 1922, the son of William J. and Edna May Irvine. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1942, and served as a Japanese interpreter-translator with a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. After the war he received a Fulbright scholarship to Oxford University, where he earned a B. Lit. in economics.