Media Matters Declares War on Fox

[Dusty]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html


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.” In an interview and a 2010 planning memo shared with POLITICO, Brock listed the fronts on which Media Matters — which he said is operating on a $10 million-plus annual budget — is working to chip away at Fox and its parent company, News Corp. They include its bread-and-butter distribution of embarrassing clips and attempts to rebut Fox points, as well as a series of under-the-radar tactics.

Media Matters, Brock said, is assembling opposition research files not only on Fox’s top executives but on a series of midlevel officials. It has hired an activist who has led a successful campaign to press advertisers to avoid Glenn Beck’s show. The group is assembling a legal team to help people who have clashed with Fox to file lawsuits for defamation, invasion of privacy or other causes. And it has hired two experienced reporters, Joe Strupp and Alexander Zaitchik, to dig into Fox’s operation to help assemble a book on the network, due out in 2012 from Vintage/Anchor. (In the interest of full disclosure, Media Matters last month also issued a report criticizing “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy’s criticism of this reporter’s blog.)

Brock said Media Matters 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 and also is looking for ways to turn regulators in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere against the network.

The group will “focus on [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch and trying to disrupt his commercial interests — whether that be here or looking at what’s going on in London right now,” Brock said, referring to News Corp.’s — apparently successful — move to take a majority stake in the satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

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[Dozer523]

And they MEAN it (this time) footage of the first PT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1sG9Nmz3w

[Dusty]

Exactly.

[incarcerated]

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/26/me...on-at-network/

Media Matters developing ‘opposition research’ on Fox, has list of ‘every single person’ at network

By Steven Nelson - The Daily Caller
Published: 5:45 PM 03/26/2011
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Media Matters founder David Brock told Politico that his organization’s activism has developed into a “war on Fox.” This strategy includes extensive work to compile intelligence on the employees of the cable news channel.

“We made a list of every single person who works for Fox and tried to figure out who might be disgruntled and why, and we went out to try to meet them,” Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt told Politico. “Somebody in that organization is giving us primary source documents.”

Rabin-Havt also told Politico that Media Matters was compiling “opposition research” files on “mid- and senior-level execs and producers.”

[Dusty]

At least Soros is out of the whole deal.

[Mustang Man]

David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage”

I'll be looking forward to his BDA.

[echoes]

Originally Posted by incarcerated

Media Matters developing ‘opposition research’ on Fox, has list of ‘every single person’ at network

My, my, my....that is interesting, isn't it?

Hope "they" all know that "We" are watching them as well. If no one else thinks there is a correlation between the DOJ supporting that Muslim teacher of 9 months, who wants to goto mecca, and this group....well, then we are in trouble, IMHO!

Have a feeling though, that there are REAL AMERICANS who do!

Holly

P.S.....Incarcerated, LOVE you avatar! Oh Yeah!

[echoes]

Originally Posted by Dusty

At least Soros is out of the whole deal.

And also agree....hmmmmmmm.

Holly

[greenberetTFS]

Is it just me or doesn't this RSM bear a strong resemblance to a certain Major on this forum?.......... For your review and reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1sG9Nmz3w[/QUOTE]

Big Teddy

[ChuckG]

Originally Posted by Dusty

At least Soros is out of the whole deal.

I don't think so, I believe that he is funding Media Matters. Why is he even in this country? He is not an American. I get sick of reading all of his liberal, over the top, shit.

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by echoes

Incarcerated, LOVE you avatar! Oh Yeah!

Gosh, I'm so glad you like it.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by ChuckG

I don't think so, I believe that he is funding Media Matters. Why is he even in this country? He is not an American. I get sick of reading all of his liberal, over the top, shit.

In this case, my pink font indicated sarcasm as opposed to humor.

I'll start using pink font for both, but will add a to indicated humor, or a to indicate sarcasm, if it will help.

Of course, then I could just omit the pink font, right?

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by Dusty

In this case, my pink font indicated sarcasm as opposed to humor.

I'll start using pink font for both, but will add a to indicated humor, or a to indicate sarcasm, if it will help.

Of course, then I could just omit the pink font, right?

Would you mind repeating that again,you've completely lost me?.........

Big Teddy

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by greenberetTFS

Would you mind repeating that again,you've completely lost me?.........

Big Teddy

Go over it slowly, Big Brother.

[SouthernDZ]

Originally Posted by echoes

Hope "they" all know that "We" are watching them as well. If no one else thinks there is a correlation between the DOJ supporting that Muslim teacher of 9 months, who wants to go to mecca, and this group....well, then we are in trouble, IMHO!

Have a feeling though, that there are REAL AMERICANS who do!

Holly

I've been confused about something for some time, given the viewership Fox News enjoys over most other "news" outlets combined, why do they refer to me as "fringe" when I seem to be in the majority?