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Media matters? That's were you get your info from?? I would be careful there. Just do a google search on them, you get the likes of George Soros, Moveon.org etc.
These organizations are part of the Liberal media machine!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America
Benefactors and staff
MMfA started with the help of $2 million in donations from liberal philanthropists connected to the Democratic party. According to Byron York, additional funding came from
MoveOn.org and the
New Democrat Network.
[14][15][16]
In 2004 MMfA received the endorsement of the
Democracy Alliance, a partnership of wealthy and politically active donors. The Alliance itself does not fund its any of its endorsees, but many wealthy Alliance members acted on the endorsement and donated directly to MMfA.
[17][18][19] Media Matters as a matter of course has a policy of not comprehensively listing donors. Six years after the Alliance endorsed MMfA, financier
George Soros - a founding and continuing member of the Alliance - announced in 2010 that he was donating $1 million to MMfA. Soros said: "Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters." Soros said concern over "recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence" had moved him to donate to MMfA, which thanked Soros for announcing his donation "quickly and transparently."
[20]
Former chief of staff to president Bill Clinton
John Podesta provided office space for Media Matters early in its formation at the
Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank that he had created in 2002.
[21] Hillary Clinton advised Media Matters in its early stages out of a belief that progressives should follow conservatives in forming think tanks and advocacy groups to support their political goals.
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Media Matters hired numerous political professionals who had worked for Democratic politicians and for other progressive groups.
[24][25] In 2004 article on Media Matters the
National Review referred to MMfA staffers who had recently worked on the presidential campaigns of
John Edwards and
Wesley Clark, for Congressman
Barney Frank, and for the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
[26]
[edit] Progressive Talent Initiative
Established to "incubate a new generation of liberal pundits", the Progressive Talent Initiative trains potential pundits in media skills.
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[edit] Media Matters Action Network
David Brock established Media Matters Action Network to track conservative politicians and organizations.
[29] Organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, the organization can lobby and engage in political campaign work.
[30] The
New York Times reports that it is "set to take on an expanded role in the 2012 elections, including potentially running television ads."
[edit] Offshoot websites
In 2009 Media Matters Action Network launched the Conservative Transparency website, aimed at tracking the funding of conservative activist organizations.
[31] Media Matters Action Network established the Political Correction project with the goal of holding conservative politicians and advocacy groups accountable.
[32] In December 2010 Media Matters Action Network started
EqualityMatters.org, a site "in support of gay equality." At launch the site fully incorporated Media Matters's content on LGBT issues.
[33] Designed to provide talking points for liberal activists and politicians, David Brock set up the Message Matters project.
[34] Media Matters runs the website DropFox.com and works to get advertisers to boycott the
Fox News Channel. One target,
Orbitz, initially referred to Media Matters' efforts as a "smear campaign," then on June 9, 2011 agreed to "review the policies and process used to evaluate where advertising is placed."
[35][36] It is also targeting Netflix, Best Western, Priceline, Delta Airlines, Ocean Spray and Southwest Airlines.
Be careful where you get your info from!!
