“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said David Brock, the founder of Media Matters. Now the strategy of the liberal group has changed. The new strategy is “war on Fox.”
Politico reports that Brock’s plan of “guerilla warfare and sabotage” against Fox is almost assuming the strategy of grassroots political activism:
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.Brock plans to hire an opposition research team in its campaign against Fox News, showing that Media Matters is shifting its focus from media criticism to political activism, as Politico’s Ben Smith notes.
Smith reports:
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.“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” Brock wrote in a planning memo. “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.”
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“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” David Brock, founder of Media Matters, wrote in a planning memo. Gee, Mr. Brock, isn't that what your group was founded as, a media critic meant to educate the public?
Media Matters is not a tax exempt educational organization. It is a de facto mouthpiece of George Soros and his extreme liberal foot soldiers, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
What goes around comes around, ye hypocrites.
I think you missed the point that fox news is not the Press… in that it is a mouth piece for the KochArmey/ Murdock korperate kabal… It is no accident that Fox cannot get permission to broadcast in Canada..insomuch as the government there resticts the airwaves to those who do not have a history of telling lies and distortions…. Look it up….
Liberals should realize that Fox is a benefit to Liberals. Fox News has consistently IGNORED the fact that Obama,the Liberal's poster boy,is NOT the President: http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/08/17/there-is-n…
THERE ARE NO Honest American Mains stream Network News agencies.
MEDIA MATTERS ALSO TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN OF ‘GUERRILLA WARFARE AND SABOTAGE’ AGAINST U.S.! No? Watch! Then, comes the Two-witnesses desribed in the Bible in the Book of Revelation to severely punish u.s. for 3 1/2 years! And, who do YOU out there think that it will be that will give each other presents when Obama kills these two witnesses? Watch!
Nothing is new here! David Brock & Media Matters have been attacking Fox for years!
Let's face it, George Soros and his Media Matters are nothing short of socialist/communist/islamist fools who are hell bent on destroying everything the United States has stood for since its founding! Soros/Media Matters is a multi-billionaire who delights in and heavily funds efforts in taking down any world government that is not hard core socialist/communist. He is an enigma in that he is Jewish and even opposes Israel's existence. It all comes down to this: Soros, the Democrat party and the usurper BHO know that this is their last best chance to destroy American Constitutional Democracy and conservatism before they can be voted out of office in 2012.
(continued) Soros, the Democrats and BHO actually could succeed unless the Republican controlled House of Representatives HOLD their ground on Democrat spending, Obamacare, and fight back against the American mainstream media who are prostituting themselves to BHO and act against will of the great majority of the American people. If they succeed, you can say good-bye to the freedoms guaranteed by the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights because there will not be an American Constitution or Bill of Rights anymore. These rights are being taken away as we speak. The United States will be a second rate world power and will be unable to defend ourselves against our known enemies. God help us if Soros, the Democrats and BHO succeed!
Geo Soros sure likes to spend money. He should be helping the poor in that he was poor when he
was young. The truth has no agenda so this won't affect Fox because they have all the proof that
shows the lies and corruption. Better lock that stuff up FOX. Might be another Watergate.
(First part) Let's face it, George Soros and his Media Matters are nothing short of socialist/communist who are determined to destroy everything the United States has stood for since its founding! Soros/Media Matters is a multi-billionaire who delights in and heavily funds efforts in taking down any world government that is not hard core socialist/communist. He is an enigma in that he is Jewish and even opposes Israel's existence. It all comes down to this: Soros, the Democrat party and BHO know that this is their last best chance to destroy American Constitutional Democracy and conservatism before they can be voted out of office in 2012.
You forgot the Islamist part… fumducker!!!!