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Media Matters Finally Fesses Up
Media Matters really enjoys branding itself as an arbiter of truth designed to correct lies and misinformation from conservatives that they perceive is occurring in the US media.
Of course, we all know better than that. They’re no more than a Fox News bashing robot – and a bad one at that. Well, today Media Matters admitted to it’s real goal: waging “War on Fox” and the GOP. From Politico:
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 a political organizations and the “nerve center” of the conservative movement…
“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.”
To me, however, that isn’t even the most notable part. No, it’s how Brock now describes the organization himself:
[MMFA founder David] Brock’s 2010 planning memo offers a glimpse at Media Matters’ shift from media critic to a new species of political animal.
“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” its memo says. “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
It is not about correcting misinformation to MMFA anymore. Their goal now is a “War on Fox News,” not as they see it as a media organization. Instead, they are treating it as a wing of the Republican Party. The cutesy-sounding mission of Media Matters to “correct conservative misinformation” is no longer even remotely appropriate. No, MMFA is a political group with $10 million-plus in annual funding designed to wage war against Fox News, and in their eyes the GOP and conservatives as a whole.
Because of this, Media Matters should reconsider their 501(c)(3) status which is designated for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes. MMFA no longer meets any of these qualifiers (it’s arguable they never did) and under the banner of waging a war against Fox News and the GOP puts them in an entirely different zip code.
UPDATE: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air (who kindly links back here) finds the use of the word “sabotage” worrisome, but notes they’re finally giving up their fauz-credibility.
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[...] Brandon Kiser argues that this should change MMFA’s tax status. [...]
their new mission statement about fox being the leader of the GOP is so stupid. it is just so blatantly partisan and untrue, only a fraction of these ultra liberals even believe that. These are fanatically uninformed and ignorant people, MMFA.
Politico might call MMFA a new kind of political animal with this “strategy”, but that’s hogwash. They’ll just be the internet version of the union thug. They go bussed in not knowing a damn thing with their pre-printed signs and their talking points, and they’ll inconvenience and bully everyone around them until they capitulate. If intimidation doesn’t work, violence is always the answer.
IF groups like Media Matters couldn’t operate under tax exempt status, they wouldn’t exist for five seconds. The so-called enlightenment troops cannot survive on their own and their enablers who are mostly wealthy leftist liberals use the same tax dodge laws they continually decry when conservatives try to use them for their purposes.
Hypocrisy on a massive scale by the leftist liberals. What else is new
Will they change their name to Radio North Korea?
“their new mission statement about fox being the leader of the GOP is so stupid. it is just so blatantly partisan and untrue, only a fraction of these ultra liberals even believe that.”
I disagree. FOX as a ‘leader’ of the GOP is a pretty widely held viewpoint among the liberals I talk with. Like you say, it’s absurd, and they’re in for a rude awakening if/when they finally do realize that Fox does not equal GOP, but its something they definitely believe.
Most sane people would simply look at the actual number of viewers Fox has on a given day, rather than the decimal point “ratings” share, and conclude that Fox could not possibly be the all-powerful monolith it’s painted to be. But, again, I’m talking about sane people interested in facts.
[...] Brandon Kiser argues that this should change MMFA’s tax status. Posted in [...]
I didn’t realize Soros media arm didn’t have to pay taxes…how convenient…
Seems to me those that follow politics have mostly chosen if they trust Fox News or not already so Media Matters is preaching to the choir and won’t convince anybody. This means progressives will be less informed and more opinionated but that’s been the trend for some time.
[...] focus of their attacks on Fox News, means that the site should reconsider its IRS 501(c)(3) status: The cutesy-sounding mission of Media Matters to “correct conservative misinformation” is no [...]
Your blog sucks.
[...] on a course of actively opposing all Republican candidates. Brandon Kiser at The Right Sphere blog argues that this new statement of MM’s mission means it must change its tax [...]
[...] on a course of actively opposing all Republican candidates. Brandon Kiser at The Right Sphere blog argues that this new statement of MM's mission means it must change its tax status. Beyond the [...]
[...] on a course of actively opposing all Republican candidates. Brandon Kiser at The Right Sphere blog argues that this new statement of MM’s mission means it must change its tax [...]
Wouldn’t this open up the possibility of a whistleblower inside Media Matters claiming a big chunk of back taxes if they can furnish the IRS with information that partisan bias has been part of Media Matters operations from the beginning?
[...] However, Media Matters is treating Fox News like a political organization. As Brandon points out, this should no longer qualify Media Matters as a 501(c)(3) [...]