Posted on 04/29/2014 12:31:24 PM PDT by TexasCajun
Media Matters employees are furious that their bosses are trying to keep them from unionizing.
A union-organizing committee at the liberal group released a statement Monday slamming their employers for “the unexpected and unexplained path our leadership has taken in response to our efforts to unionize,” adding that “the actions of Media Matters executives have placed employees in the impossible position of continuing to produce content espousing pro-labor values for an employer who is challenging our right to unionize.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Media Matters employees often write in defense of organized labor, and our work has demonstrated the virtues of organizing through card-check and the perils of being forced through a protracted NLRB election process. It is fitting, then, that we’ve chosen to unionize and attempt to lead our own lives by the principles we regularly advocate for in our work.
The actions of Media Matters executives have placed employees in the impossible position of continuing to produce content espousing pro-labor values for an employer who is challenging our right to unionize. Not only is management subjecting Media Matters employees to arduous NLRB procedures, the actions of their attorneys indicate Media Matters executives object so tenaciously to our union that they appear willing to prevent employees from ever having the opportunity to vote on the matter.
Many Media Matters employees feel betrayed by the unexpected and unexplained path our leadership has taken in response to our efforts to unionize. Our desire to organize should be not a controversial or surprising turn of events at a progressive organization like Media Matters for America. We continue to hold out hope that our executives will change course in favor of the path the organization has long advocated.
-Media Matters Organizing Committee
aaaahhhhhaaaaaahhhhaaaaaa, aaaaaaahhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaa!!!
It was ONLY a Matter of TIME!Now,They’re “Eating Their Own”and(as The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would say):”Their Chickens Have Come Home To Roost”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the annual MM budget? # FTE hacks?
after I retire, I should look into becoming a union organizer...restricting my work to liberal-run businesses of course.
Few things give me more pleasure than watching a useful idiot come to the stunned realization that they were used.
Brings a tear to my eye really.
Why aren’t broadcasting/media industry unions trying to organize at Media Matters?
Nothing more entertaining than watching liberal values collide and the liberals try to out-idiot each other.
That’s a great photo of Brock, with that stupid, stunned look.
Any photo of a lib is similar really. The stunned look is genetic. ;)
” to produce content espousing pro-labor values”
Can a non-profit do that?
More popcorn please!
“aaaahhhhhaaaaaahhhhaaaaaa, aaaaaaahhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaa!!!”
lol! Proving once again what hypocrites they are.
James O’Keefe’s new book, Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy:
June 24, 2013
Of all the anti-journalist organs, Media Matters, more formally Media Matters for America, is the squirreliest and least scrupulous. According to the New York Times, Media Matters has a $10 million annual budget, most of it provided by friendly plutocrats, none richer than international man of mystery George Soros. Every day its staff of nearly one hundred little McCarthyites pores over every word said by every major commentator of a different political stripe; they are looking for something that can be used against him or her. They specialize in race-baiting. [p.60]
http://capitalresearch.org/2013/06/james-okeefe-slams-george-soros-funded-media-matters/
Relying on tax returns and websites of wealthy U.S. foundations, a Daily Caller investigation has revealed the sources of more than $28.8 million in funding collected by the liberal Media Matters for America since 2003, the year before its formal incorporation. That sum represents 54 percent of every dollar the organization has raised in its history, making Media Matters a principally foundation-driven — not citizen-supported — activist group.
The list of Media Matters’ foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left Tides Foundation ($4,384,702), George Soros’ Open Society Institutes ($1,075,000), the Ford Foundation ($966,466), the Sandler Foundation ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization — and the Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.
They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization MoveOn.org ($50,000), the Barbra Streisand Foundation ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered Stride Rite Charitable Foundation ($25,000), the Lear Family Foundation ($55,000) — endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear — and the Joyce Foundation ($400,000), whose board of directors included Barack Obama from 1994 to 2002.
(RELATED: See the list of Media Matters’ foundation donors)
The Joyce Foundation grant, made in 2010, was earmarked for ”a gun and public safety issue initiative.” That program, judging from the ensuing Media Matters coverage, included scathing reports on the shooting-sports lobby and on the firearms industry’s annual convention. “To lure repeat buyers,” that story warned, “increased lethality has become the nicotine of the firearms industry.”
2010 was also, TheDC reported Monday, the year when Media Matters founder David Brock’s personal assistant was carrying a holstered and concealed Glock handgun when he accompanied Brock to events.
The Daily Caller is publishing spreadsheets describing all the grants to Media Matters it has identified, how much each donor contributed overall, and for what purpose, if any, their donations were earmarked. Most grants were described in foundations’ tax returns as “general support” contributions.
TheDC reported Thursday that the ARCA Foundation, a Democratic-aligned philanthropy, made a $50,000 grant to Media Matters in 2006 for the specific purpose of “fact checking” religious broadcasters. ARCA also gave Media Matters $100,000 in startup funding two years earlier. But in the larger context of the $53.4 million the organization has raised since 2003, $150,000 is a drop in the proverbial bucket.
(RELATED: See the spreadsheet of foundation grants to Media Matters)
Non-profit organizations like Media Matters are permitted to keep their sources of support secret, but grantmaking foundations are required to disclose how much they give away each year, and to whom. According to the Foundation Center, U.S. foundations distributed more than $45.7 billion in 2009. Their publicly available tax returns make it possible to reconstruct non-profit grant recipients’ once-secret incomes to a great degree.
Thnx.
Media Matters for America Treasurer among Who’s Who on George Soros Democracy Alliance
By Judi McLeod Monday, January 14, 2008
David BrockWith David Brock getting the lion’s share of the attention as the benighted “King of Switcheroo” over at Media Matters for America, who pays any attention to members of his board of directors?
Guess that’s how most folk missed that Media Matter’s Treasurer, Rachel Pritzker Hunter is among the Who’s Who in the George Soros $100 million clearing house known as the Democracy Alliance (DA).
“Rachel Pritzker Hunter of the Hyatt Hotel Pritzkers was a DA board member after the group was created.” (Matthew Vadum James Dellinger, Capital Research Center, Canada Free Press, Jan. 10, 2008).
Missing Rachel’s membership in Democracy Alliance, which funds groups like Media Matters is a natural with hatchet man David Brock going after anything right of center out on the hustings.
Shell-shocked by their stinging defeat only three years ago, Soros and other wealthy liberals aimed to fund a political comeback. They created a permanent political infrastructure of non-profits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups, or what Vadum and Dellinger describe as a kind of “vast left wing conspiracy” to compete with the conservative movement.
A founding DA member, Pritzker Hunter, a nutritionist claiming expertise in sensitivity to foods by profession, is a generous donor to Democrat candidates and politicians.
According to documents filed by the Federal Election Commission, Pritzker Hunter gave $500 to Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown in August of 2006.
In 2004, Pritzker Hunter gave $1,000 to Howard Dean’s campaign, $500 to Senator John Kerry and $500 to Democrat Presidential nominee Wesley Clark.
Some journalists might categorize Media Matter’s treasurer’s DA membership as a classic conflict of interest on the board of a media monitor organization perpetually on the hunt for “conservative misinformation”, but Media Matters Pooh-bahs only recognize Republican conflicts of interest.
There may have been a method in the madness that allowed someone as blatantly controversial as David Brock at the helm of Media Matters.
The USS David Brock keeps changing course.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Media%20Matters%20for%20America%20Treasurer.html
The nest of vipers who are Brock’s main backers are proof positive that the big money behind Media Matters won’t be drying up anytime soon.
“Standing behind Brock in creating Media Matters was John Podesta, a former chief of staff in the Clinton administration and the head of the “progressive” Washington, DC think tank, the center for American Progress,” according to DiscoverTheNetworks.org. “In 2004, Podest provided Brock with office space for his fledgling enterprise. Soon after, Media Matters received over $2 million in seed donations from a roster of affluent donors including Leo Hindery Jr., a former cable magnate; Susie Tompkins Buell, a co-founder of the fashion company Espirit and a close ally of Senator Hillary Clinton; James Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist who nearly served as ambassador to Luxembourg during the Clinton administration; Bren Simon, a Democratic activist and the wife of shopping mall developer Mel Simon; and New York psychologist and philanthropist Gail Furman. Media Matters, which can accept tax-deductible contributions under section 501 © (3) of the tax code, has also benefited from the patronage of Peter Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation and a longtime consort of leftist financier George Soros.
“Media Matters has not always been forthcoming about its high-profile backers. In particular, the group has long labored to obscure any financial ties to George Soros. But in March 2003, the Cybercast News Service (CNS) detailed the copious links between Media Matters and several Soros “affiliates”—among them MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, and Peter Lewis. Confronted with this story, a spokesman for the organization explained that “Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros.” (emphasis added), a transparent evasion.”
If the King of Switcheroo as head of a media monitoring group that only goes after conservative misinformation is not enough controversy, it has now come to light that not only did Hillary Clinton help start Media Matters with former conservative David Brock in charge, she bragged about it to a convention of the far left. At the Daily Kos convention—a gathering of the far, far left—Hillary Clinton said the following:
“We are certainly better prepared and more focused on, you know, taking our arguments, and making them effective, and disseminating them widely…in a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress.”
Controversy has not put a crimp in Media Matter’s financial style. Kicked off with $2 million in May of 2004, by August the organization’s operating budget had already doubled to $4 million.
Only one year later, Media Matter’ revenue for 2005 was $8,470,957. From Dec. 31, 2006 a Form 990 shows Media Matter’s assets at $5,874,246.
Brock’s compensation is listed at $230,611 for the year ending Dec. 31, 2006.
Not bad for a guy that David Horowitz, founder of www.FrontPageMag.com says was “a sleazy gossip sort of writer when he was on the right, and he’s a sleazy gossip writer on the left, and an unscrupulous one on both sides.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Media%20Matters%20for%20America%20Treasurer.html
Ah yes - the joys of intimidation and coercion.
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