If is legal, yes. So is reporting on the fact that they are, in fact, enormously biased (to use your own words). You're also right than the government should no

If is legal, yes. So is reporting on the fact that they are, in fact, enormously biased (to use your own words). You're also right than the government should not be involved in this which I why I'd like some other group - preferably a university which does not suffer from the type of bias American universities suffer from at the moment - take up this job [1]. The problem lies in Media Matters being portrayed as being unbiased while in truth they are anything but. [1] Kent Asp at the university of Göteborg (Sweden) keeps track of the political bias of the news media in Sweden which shows their move to the left: On the political scale, Swedish journalists can be placed to the left of the Swedish public and their elected politicians. And the distance between the two sides has increased significantly in recent decades, although this is more due to the public and politicians having moved to the right than to journalists having moved to the left. (https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/852943 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/852943)