Posted on 03/06/2010 4:10:48 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
From a glitzy new office in downtown Washington, the ideological war over the media is fully engaged.
Six years after its founding to counter what it said was “conservative misinformation,” Media Matters for America employs a staff of 70 that spends 19 hours a day monitoring newspapers, magazines, broadcast and cable television, talk radio, and the Internet to counter reporting or commentary it deems to be inaccurate or biased.
Lou Dobbs recently described the group as part of “the vast left wing conspiracy,” an ironic twist on Hillary Clinton’s famous description of the conservative infrastructure arrayed against her husband when he was president and fighting off attempts to impeach him.
In fact, just a few miles away and across the Potomac, in Alexandria, Va., one of the groups Clinton was talking about, the Media Research Center, founded in 1987 by L. Bent Brozell III, is engaged in a longer-running attack on the media from the right.
Shortly after launching Media Matters, founder David Brock said he hoped his group would some day be as influential as Bozell’s and that day appears to have arrived. They have roughly the same budget ($10 million) and staff, and are equally adept at provoking the other side.
The MRC, as a rule, doesn’t comment on Media Matters. Not so conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart. “I’m 100 percent at war with those people,” he recently told POLITICO.
One of the bloodiest battles in that war occurred last fall, when Kevin Jennings, an openly-gay educator hired by the Department of Education to run an anti-bullying campaign, became a conservative cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Media Matters is nothing but a liberal joke. Those people are clueless.
Does that mean what I think it does?
Are we thought criminals?
Jeez, they already have 90% of television and all of Hollywood brainwashing people.
Soros has doubled down.
Damn it!
We need to cap misinformation if it leaves the bound of the DNC.
It becomes politically unlawful then.
What recession?
Liberal special interest groups are RAKING in the cash....
Politico treats David Brock’s 180 degree turn from conservative hack liar to Communist hack liar as if it were a principled decision. It was for the money. I don’t think anyone who knows anything about this believes otherwise. How can Politico be so blind to the obvious? Selling your soul to the devil (George Soros) can be very lucrative, at least for awhile. That picture of David Brock must be 20 years old. Is that what he’s handing out these days? David Brock is about 50 years old now. That man in that pictures is about 30. Such vanity!
For anyone who hasn’t seen this, it’s the very funny RedEye Robot Theatre’s presentation of:
“What’s It Like to Work at Media Matters?”
http://bigjournalism.com/ggutfeld/2010/01/06/whats-it-like-to-work-at-media-matters/
I agree....Media Matters is a bad joke and attempt at “objective” journalism.
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