"Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FOX

[Melensdad]

"Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FOX

Long held up as an impartial and neutral source by liberals, MEDIA MATTERS is finally admitting what many open minded people already knew. It has a blatantly liberal agenda.

Interestingly not only are they attacking FOX, but they are attacking shareholders who own company stock, mid-level managers, and pretty much anyone, anyway they can.

For the full story follow the link, but here's a bit of an intro:

The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.

The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring of newspapers and other television networks and is narrowing its focus to Fox and a handful of conservative websites, which its leaders view as political organizations and the “nerve center” of the conservative movement. The shift reflects the centrality of the cable channel to the contemporary conservative movement, as well as the loathing it inspires among liberals — not least among the donors who fund Media Matters’ staff of about 90, who are arrayed in neat rows in a giant war room above Massachusetts Avenue.

“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.

The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”
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Media Matters, Brock said, is assembling opposition research files not only on Fox’s top executives but on a series of midlevel officials.
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also plans to run a broad campaign against Fox’s parent company, News Corp., an effort which most likely will involve opening a United Kingdom arm in London to attack the company’s interests there. The group hired an executive from MoveOn.org to work on developing campaigns among News Corp. shareholders
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trying to disrupt his commercial interests
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Media Matters, he said, is also conducting “opposition research” on a dozen or so “mid- and senior-level execs and producers,”
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html#ixzz1HqBgTFDa

So much for using MEDIA MATTERS as a credible source, they are obviously no such thing

 

[mak2]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

Ummm, you thought Media Matters was impartial? I did not realize they even claimed to be. I thought MM just tried to be the Anti Fox.

 

[Melensdad]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

No I was never delusional and was not one who ever thought they were impartial, that is why I often debunked them when you posted them as a source.

Now that they admit their bias I see no need to ever debunk them again since they have admitted that they have ZERO credibility.

 

[mak2]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

So I guess the same holds true for Faux. I see them about equally bias and about equal credibility.

 

[Melensdad]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

So I guess the same holds true for Faux. I see them about equally bias and about equal credibility.

Seems to me that is a false parallel you are using.

Media Matters admits it has, not just a liberal bias, but an agenda of attacking a credible media organization.

Fox, while they have their stable of silly shows like Glen Beck, also has credible news reporting and credible news reporting. Like them or no, they really are more balanced than any other source.

 

[mak2]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

You think they are more balanced because they say waht you want to hear. I might be the same with PBS which I think most often reprots accurately. But no, I think the fair and balanced Fox thing is a joke. MM, I thought, had always existed to give RW media a hard time.

 

[Melensdad]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

Nope. I say they are more balanced because several surveys and studies have proved it. Do the research for yourself, no way I can prove it to you, but you can prove it to yourself if you are open to the truth.

 

[mak2]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

I really do listen to other points of view. I just think there is a lot more "guidance" on the right. I think I have an open mind, but I guess we all do. It would not be interesting if we all agreed.

By the way, studies never prove anything. Proof is for math.

 

[Av8r3400]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

You're barking at the moon, Bob.

The liberals of this once great country are all dancing on the stern of the Titanic. Logic and facts need not apply as long as they have demagoguery and distortion.

 

[grizzer]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

MM has to do something for their $10 million/yr from George Soros...

Attacking Glenn Beck has failed miserably as Huffington Post reports GB lost 4 radio stations while gaining 88.

 

[mak2]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

I have always thought media matters was there for only one thing, giving the right wing media a hard time. I cant figure out how Bob and the OP ever thought it was held up as impartial and netural. They have attacked faux and Rush and anyone else far right every since and I can kinda see how Fox could become a full time job. I dont see how this affects their creditablity, they never claimed to be fair and balanced. Fox, on the other hand.......

About MM
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.

Using the website mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.

http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/

 

[jimbo]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

I have always thought media matters was there for only one thing, giving the right wing media a hard time. I cant figure out how Bob and the OP ever thought it was held up as impartial and netural. They have attacked faux and Rush and anyone else far right every since and I can kinda see how Fox could become a full time job. I dont see how this affects their creditablity, they never claimed to be fair and balanced. Fox, on the other hand.......

About MM
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.

Using the website mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.

http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/

I agree. IMO Media Matters has never pretended to be anything other than a far left watchdog, and so states on their home page. OTH, I have never seen any news on Newsmax favorable to the left. It is our job to stay informed and sort the wheat from the chaff.

 

[CityGirl]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

I agree. IMO Media Matters has never pretended to be anything other than a far left watchdog, and so states on their home page. OTH, I have never seen any news on Newsmax favorable to the left. It is our job to stay informed and sort the wheat from the chaff.

I think it is important to read news from multiple news venues even those known to espouse views contrary to our own.

 

[jimbo]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

I think it is important to read news from multiple news venues even those known to espouse views contrary to our own.

Totally agree. Take any set of facts, run it through any 3 news organizations, and you will get 6 different opinions, all claiming to be fact.

 

[AAUTOFAB1]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

ABC,owned by Disney,run buy Robert Inger CEO, married to willow bay reporter for the Huffington post,one of the presidents so called non bias news information..(just an example) seems to me even if you here the news you then have to disseminate who is reporting it ,what the agenda might be,find the opposing view,disseminate who is reporting it,and what their agenda might be,find out who owns,runs and finance's the said media outlet,and known associations to the said media,decide if they have bias and if the bias is in tune with your beliefs,OK now i'm confused.....never mind...thats what they want.

 

[Cowboy]

Re: "Media Matters" takes off its cloak and admits its bias as it plans attacks on FO

ABC,owned by Disney,run buy Robert Inger CEO, married to willow bay reporter for the Huffington post,one of the presidents so called non bias news information..(just an example) seems to me even if you here the news you then have to disseminate who is reporting it ,what the agenda might be,find the opposing view,disseminate who is reporting it,and what their agenda might be,find out who owns,runs and finance's the said media outlet,and known associations to the said media,decide if they have bias and if the bias is in tune with your beliefs,OK now i'm confused.....never mind...thats what they want.

Exactlly , there is no such thing as a news channel anymore and no one even reports the news anymore , its all turned into a friggen reality show type circus. Its all about ratings , the WOW factor & giving people what they want which is drama . That way those in power can continue to rape everyone they can for their own benefit while us peons are distracted .

Aint no different with weather reporting, sure you can check all the chanells on local tv, all will be different each one claiming to be the most accurate , same goes with the internet sites, hell I dont even trust looking at the radar no more . If you want to know WTF is going on your going to have to go look for yourselves, even then you can only beleive half of what you see.