Who is Media Matters for America?/How Hillary Controls the Media -2 stories

[Guest guest]

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612?nclick_check=1

Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives

NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT

By Brad Kava

Mercury News

Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT

While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and

getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then Thursday from

CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,

organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on its belt.

In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget of $3

million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far for

its efforts to " monitor, analyze and correct conservative misinformation. "

Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it targets, the

group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the

popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to

reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox News.

But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark that

caught fire.

" We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week ago, " said

Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. " We focused a

great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this wasn't

an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward. "

The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus to

firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,

whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest voices on

the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals

Savage and .

" Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if

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they speak out and take action, they will get results, " said Foser,

31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters with

the better-known founder Brock.

Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former conservative

writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated

" Troopergate " story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious book

about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised

conservative operative.

The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a writer

for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while writing

what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he received a

$1 million advance. In writing " The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, " he

realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.

He documented this turnaround in his 2002 autobiography, " Blinded by

the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative. "

That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his

neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media Matters

as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place

conservative messages in the media.

He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of

radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as

reported on www.mediamatters.org): " the most vile, despicable human

beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the

country ... despicable, vile ankle biters. "

And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review of

Brock's " Blinded by the Right, " raises the question of whether anyone

can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.

Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those working for

Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video, audio

and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws

financial support from Democratic Party sources.

" We are up-front about who we are, " said Foser. " We are progressives,

and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits

conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had to

print very few corrections. "

He added that " content, rather than intent, is what differentiates us

from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias. "

Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's

corrections to an ABC documentary called " Path to 9-11 " and an

accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that

linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

" We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school

children's hands, " said Foser.

Contact Brad Kava at bkava@... or (408) 920-5040. Read his

radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media

LeBoutillier

Monday, July 18, 2005

The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign against

Ed Klein and his book " The Truth About Hillary, " beginning before the

book was even published or available for advance readings.

Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?

Story Continues Below

The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East Coast

elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York Times,

Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with

pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known as

" advocacy journalism. " In other words, they use their media outposts

to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending their

latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

snip>

2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in

Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began rebutting

and distorting things in the book.

FULL STORY:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml

[Guest guest]

I posted on this last week. Media Matters was founded by Brock, a

neocon political operative and dirty trickster in the 90's who

famously (he wrote a book) had a change of heart and became a Democrat.

He set up Media Matters as a media watchdog, pointing out

conservative/republican bias in the media. There are very close ties

with the Clintons.

Does a picture begin to emerge?

On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:40 AM, searchingforserenity111 wrote:

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612?

nclick_check=1

Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives

NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT

By Brad Kava

Mercury News

Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT

While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and

getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then Thursday from

CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,

organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on its

belt.

In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget of $3

million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far for

its efforts to " monitor, analyze and correct conservative

misinformation. "

Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it targets, the

group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the

popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to

reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox News.

But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark that

caught fire.

" We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week ago, " said

Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. " We focused a

great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this wasn't

an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward. "

The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus to

firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,

whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest voices on

the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals

Savage and .

" Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if

Advertisement

they speak out and take action, they will get results, " said Foser,

31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters with

the better-known founder Brock.

Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former conservative

writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated

" Troopergate " story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious book

about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised

conservative operative.

The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a writer

for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while writing

what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he received a

$1 million advance. In writing " The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, " he

realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.

He documented this turnaround in his 2002 autobiography, " Blinded by

the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative. "

That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his

neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media Matters

as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place

conservative messages in the media.

He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of

radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as

reported on www.mediamatters.org): " the most vile, despicable human

beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the

country ... despicable, vile ankle biters. "

And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review of

Brock's " Blinded by the Right, " raises the question of whether anyone

can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.

Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those working for

Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video, audio

and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws

financial support from Democratic Party sources.

" We are up-front about who we are, " said Foser. " We are progressives,

and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits

conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had to

print very few corrections. "

He added that " content, rather than intent, is what differentiates us

from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias. "

Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's

corrections to an ABC documentary called " Path to 9-11 " and an

accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that

linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

" We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school

children's hands, " said Foser.

Contact Brad Kava at bkava@... or (408) 920-5040. Read his

radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media

LeBoutillier

Monday, July 18, 2005

The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign against

Ed Klein and his book " The Truth About Hillary, " beginning before the

book was even published or available for advance readings.

Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?

Story Continues Below

The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East Coast

elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York Times,

Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with

pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known as

" advocacy journalism. " In other words, they use their media outposts

to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending their

latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

snip>

2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in

Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began rebutting

and distorting things in the book.

FULL STORY:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml

[Guest guest]

Quite honestly I am at the point where I feel like I can't believe

ANYONE. Not my government, not the media, not my doctors etc. It

drives you crazy. I was just reading something today about

this " Operation Mockingbird " deal in which SUPPOSEDLY the CIA is

involved with controlling the media... Again, SUPPOSEDLY, Bill

O'Reilly is involved... somehow... Wiki it... But do you believe

that or do you just continue not believing anyone and move on?

That's sort of where I'm at.... believe no one.

- In EOHarm , Krakow <rkrakow@...> wrote:

>

> I posted on this last week. Media Matters was founded by

Brock, a

> neocon political operative and dirty trickster in the 90's who

> famously (he wrote a book) had a change of heart and became a

Democrat.

> He set up Media Matters as a media watchdog, pointing out

> conservative/republican bias in the media. There are very close

ties

> with the Clintons.

>

> Does a picture begin to emerge?

>

>

> On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:40 AM, searchingforserenity111 wrote:

>

> http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612?

> nclick_check=1

>

> Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives

> NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT

> By Brad Kava

> Mercury News

> Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT

>

> While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and

> getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then

Thursday from

> CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,

> organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on

its

> belt.

>

> In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget

of $3

> million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far

for

> its efforts to " monitor, analyze and correct conservative

> misinformation. "

>

> Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it

targets, the

> group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the

> popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to

> reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox

News.

> But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark

that

> caught fire.

>

> " We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week

ago, " said

> Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. " We focused

a

> great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this

wasn't

> an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward. "

>

> The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus

to

> firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,

> whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest

voices on

> the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals

> Savage and .

>

> " Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if

> Advertisement

> they speak out and take action, they will get results, " said

Foser,

> 31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters

with

> the better-known founder Brock.

>

> Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former

conservative

> writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated

> " Troopergate " story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious

book

> about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised

> conservative operative.

>

> The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a

writer

> for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while

writing

> what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he

received a

> $1 million advance. In writing " The Seduction of Hillary

Rodham, " he

> realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.

>

> He documented this turnaround in his 2002

autobiography, " Blinded by

> the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative. "

>

> That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his

> neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media

Matters

> as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place

> conservative messages in the media.

>

> He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of

> radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as

> reported on www.mediamatters.org): " the most vile, despicable

human

> beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the

> country ... despicable, vile ankle biters. "

>

> And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review

of

> Brock's " Blinded by the Right, " raises the question of whether

anyone

> can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.

>

> Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those

working for

> Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video,

audio

> and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws

> financial support from Democratic Party sources.

>

> " We are up-front about who we are, " said Foser. " We are

progressives,

> and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits

> conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had

to

> print very few corrections. "

>

> He added that " content, rather than intent, is what

differentiates us

> from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias. "

>

> Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's

> corrections to an ABC documentary called " Path to 9-11 " and an

> accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that

> linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

>

> " We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school

> children's hands, " said Foser.

>

> Contact Brad Kava at bkava@... or (408) 920-5040. Read his

> radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei

>

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media

> LeBoutillier

> Monday, July 18, 2005

>

> The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign

against

> Ed Klein and his book " The Truth About Hillary, " beginning

before the

> book was even published or available for advance readings.

>

> Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?

>

> Story Continues Below

>

> The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East

Coast

> elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York

Times,

> Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with

> pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known

as

> " advocacy journalism. " In other words, they use their media

outposts

> to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending

their

> latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

>

> snip>

>

> 2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in

> Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began

rebutting

> and distorting things in the book.

>

> FULL STORY:

> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml

>

[Guest guest]

Personally, I believe no one. Conspiracy theories abound everywhere

on every conceivable topic. We are all free thinking human beings,

and standing back, listening to all sides, where there is smoke their

is usually a fire behind it.

For one example, the far left have made it a game,(I am not a

left/right but free thinking, so not an attack on either side) to

utilize the power of the internet to infiltrate our thinking and to

some extent it works. As long as we keep in mind where and who the

information is coming from and what is their ultimate goal in doing

such.

You or I can wiki and make up a page to put out information, it is

self editing, so next week that page will be altered by someone else

who discounts that theory.

> >

> > http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612?

> > nclick_check=1

> >

> > Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives

> > NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT

> > By Brad Kava

> > Mercury News

> > Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT

> >

> > While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat

and

> > getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then

> Thursday from

> > CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,

> > organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch

on

> its

> > belt.

> >

> > In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a

budget

> of $3

> > million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so

far

> for

> > its efforts to " monitor, analyze and correct conservative

> > misinformation. "

> >

> > Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it

> targets, the

> > group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by

the

> > popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to

> > reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox

> News.

> > But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark

> that

> > caught fire.

> >

> > " We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week

> ago, " said

> > Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. " We

focused

> a

> > great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this

> wasn't

> > an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward. "

> >

> > The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus

> to

> > firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to

Foser,

> > whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest

> voices on

> > the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals

>

> > Savage and .

> >

> > " Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if

> > Advertisement

> > they speak out and take action, they will get results, " said

> Foser,

> > 31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media

Matters

> with

> > the better-known founder Brock.

> >

> > Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former

> conservative

> > writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated

> > " Troopergate " story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious

> book

> > about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised

> > conservative operative.

> >

> > The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a

> writer

> > for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while

> writing

> > what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he

> received a

> > $1 million advance. In writing " The Seduction of Hillary

> Rodham, " he

> > realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.

> >

> > He documented this turnaround in his 2002

> autobiography, " Blinded by

> > the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative. "

> >

> > That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his

> > neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media

> Matters

> > as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place

> > conservative messages in the media.

> >

> > He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes

of

> > radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as

> > reported on www.mediamatters.org): " the most vile, despicable

> human

> > beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the

> > country ... despicable, vile ankle biters. "

> >

> > And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a

review

> of

> > Brock's " Blinded by the Right, " raises the question of whether

> anyone

> > can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.

> >

> > Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those

> working for

> > Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present

video,

> audio

> > and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it

draws

> > financial support from Democratic Party sources.

> >

> > " We are up-front about who we are, " said Foser. " We are

> progressives,

> > and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits

> > conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had

> to

> > print very few corrections. "

> >

> > He added that " content, rather than intent, is what

> differentiates us

> > from things on the right that just focus on allegations of

bias. "

> >

> > Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's

> > corrections to an ABC documentary called " Path to 9-11 " and an

> > accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren

that

> > linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

> >

> > " We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of

school

> > children's hands, " said Foser.

> >

> > Contact Brad Kava at bkava@ or (408) 920-5040. Read his

> > radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei

> >

> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> > How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media

> > LeBoutillier

> > Monday, July 18, 2005

> >

> > The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign

> against

> > Ed Klein and his book " The Truth About Hillary, " beginning

> before the

> > book was even published or available for advance readings.

> >

> > Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?

> >

> > Story Continues Below

> >

> > The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East

> Coast

> > elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York

> Times,

> > Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with

> > pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known

> as

> > " advocacy journalism. " In other words, they use their media

> outposts

> > to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending

> their

> > latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

> >

> > snip>

> >

> > 2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8

in

> > Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began

> rebutting

> > and distorting things in the book.

> >

> > FULL STORY:

> > http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Read Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold and seewho controls the media.celiacdaughter <suemisiaszek@...> wrote: Quite honestly I am at the point where I feel like I can't believe ANYONE. Not my government, not the media, not my doctors etc. It drives you crazy. I was just reading something today about this "Operation Mockingbird" deal in which SUPPOSEDLY the CIA is involved with controlling the media... Again, SUPPOSEDLY, Bill O'Reilly is involved... somehow... Wiki it... But do you

believe that or do you just continue not believing anyone and move on? That's sort of where I'm at.... believe no one. - In EOHarm , Krakow <rkrakow@...> wrote:>> I posted on this last week. Media Matters was founded by Brock, a > neocon political operative and dirty trickster in the 90's who > famously (he wrote a book) had a change of heart and became a Democrat. > He set up Media Matters as a media watchdog, pointing out > conservative/republican bias in the media. There are very close ties > with the Clintons.> > Does a picture begin to emerge?> > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:40 AM, searchingforserenity111 wrote:> > http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612? > nclick_check=1> > Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives> NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT> By Brad Kava> Mercury News> Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT> > While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and> getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then Thursday from> CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,> organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on its > belt.> > In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget of $3> million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far for> its efforts to "monitor, analyze and correct conservative >

misinformation."> > Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it targets, the> group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the> popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to> reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox News.> But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark that> caught fire.> > "We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week ago," said> Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. "We focused a> great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this wasn't> an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward."> > The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus to> firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,> whose organization has traded shots with some of the

loudest voices on> the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals > Savage and .> > "Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if> Advertisement> they speak out and take action, they will get results," said Foser,> 31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters with> the better-known founder Brock.> > Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former conservative> writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated> "Troopergate" story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious book> about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised> conservative operative.> > The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a writer> for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while writing> what was to be an expose` on

Hillary Clinton for which he received a> $1 million advance. In writing "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," he> realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.> > He documented this turnaround in his 2002 autobiography, "Blinded by> the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative."> > That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his> neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media Matters> as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place> conservative messages in the media.> > He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of> radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as> reported on www.mediamatters.org): "the most vile, despicable human> beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the> country ... despicable, vile ankle biters."> > And

from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review of> Brock's "Blinded by the Right," raises the question of whether anyone> can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.> > Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those working for> Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video, audio> and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws> financial support from Democratic Party sources.> > "We are up-front about who we are," said Foser. "We are progressives,> and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits> conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had to> print very few corrections."> > He added that "content, rather than intent, is what differentiates us> from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias."> > Along

with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's> corrections to an ABC documentary called "Path to 9-11" and an> accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that> linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.> > "We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school> children's hands," said Foser.> > Contact Brad Kava at bkava@... or (408) 920-5040. Read his> radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media> LeBoutillier> Monday, July 18, 2005> > The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign against> Ed Klein and his book "The Truth About Hillary," beginning before the> book was even published or available for advance readings.> > Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?> >

Story Continues Below> > The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East Coast> elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York Times,> Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with> pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known as> "advocacy journalism." In other words, they use their media outposts> to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending their> latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.> > snip>> > 2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in> Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began rebutting> and distorting things in the book.> > FULL STORY:> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml>

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How about if you save me some time and just tell me? Hee hee.

> >

> > http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612?

> > nclick_check=1

> >

> > Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives

> > NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT

> > By Brad Kava

> > Mercury News

> > Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT

> >

> > While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and

> > getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then

> Thursday from

> > CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,

> > organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on

> its

> > belt.

> >

> > In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget

> of $3

> > million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far

> for

> > its efforts to " monitor, analyze and correct conservative

> > misinformation. "

> >

> > Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it

> targets, the

> > group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the

> > popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to

> > reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox

> News.

> > But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark

> that

> > caught fire.

> >

> > " We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week

> ago, " said

> > Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. " We focused

> a

> > great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this

> wasn't

> > an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward. "

> >

> > The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus

> to

> > firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,

> > whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest

> voices on

> > the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals

>

> > Savage and .

> >

> > " Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if

> > Advertisement

> > they speak out and take action, they will get results, " said

> Foser,

> > 31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters

> with

> > the better-known founder Brock.

> >

> > Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former

> conservative

> > writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated

> > " Troopergate " story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious

> book

> > about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised

> > conservative operative.

> >

> > The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a

> writer

> > for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while

> writing

> > what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he

> received a

> > $1 million advance. In writing " The Seduction of Hillary

> Rodham, " he

> > realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.

> >

> > He documented this turnaround in his 2002

> autobiography, " Blinded by

> > the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative. "

> >

> > That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his

> > neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media

> Matters

> > as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place

> > conservative messages in the media.

> >

> > He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of

> > radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as

> > reported on www.mediamatters.org): " the most vile, despicable

> human

> > beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the

> > country ... despicable, vile ankle biters. "

> >

> > And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review

> of

> > Brock's " Blinded by the Right, " raises the question of whether

> anyone

> > can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.

> >

> > Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those

> working for

> > Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video,

> audio

> > and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws

> > financial support from Democratic Party sources.

> >

> > " We are up-front about who we are, " said Foser. " We are

> progressives,

> > and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits

> > conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had

> to

> > print very few corrections. "

> >

> > He added that " content, rather than intent, is what

> differentiates us

> > from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias. "

> >

> > Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's

> > corrections to an ABC documentary called " Path to 9-11 " and an

> > accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that

> > linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

> >

> > " We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school

> > children's hands, " said Foser.

> >

> > Contact Brad Kava at bkava@ or (408) 920-5040. Read his

> > radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei

> >

> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> > How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media

> > LeBoutillier

> > Monday, July 18, 2005

> >

> > The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign

> against

> > Ed Klein and his book " The Truth About Hillary, " beginning

> before the

> > book was even published or available for advance readings.

> >

> > Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?

> >

> > Story Continues Below

> >

> > The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East

> Coast

> > elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York

> Times,

> > Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with

> > pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known

> as

> > " advocacy journalism. " In other words, they use their media

> outposts

> > to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending

> their

> > latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

> >

> > snip>

> >

> > 2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in

> > Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began

> rebutting

> > and distorting things in the book.

> >

> > FULL STORY:

> > http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml

> >

>

>

>

>

>

>

> ---------------------------------

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Hee Hee it's a little more complicated than a one liner, but seriously he is a dynamite writer and it's an education. If you really don't have time or energy to read it-I will try and give you a synopsis privately. that a deal??????celiacdaughter <suemisiaszek@...> wrote: How about if you save me some time and just tell me? Hee hee. > > > > http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612? > > nclick_check=1> > > > Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives> > NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT> > By Brad Kava> > Mercury News> > Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT> >

> > While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and> > getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then > Thursday from> > CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,> > organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on > its > > belt.> > > > In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget > of $3> > million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far > for> > its efforts to "monitor, analyze and correct conservative > > misinformation."> > > > Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it > targets, the> > group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the> > popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to> > reports in major media outlets, from the New

York Times to Fox > News.> > But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark > that> > caught fire.> > > > "We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week > ago," said> > Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. "We focused > a> > great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this > wasn't> > an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward."> > > > The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus > to> > firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,> > whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest > voices on> > the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals > > > Savage and .> > > > "Maybe more will be done now that people see

that, if> > Advertisement> > they speak out and take action, they will get results," said > Foser,> > 31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters > with> > the better-known founder Brock.> > > > Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former > conservative> > writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated> > "Troopergate" story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious > book> > about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised> > conservative operative.> > > > The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a > writer> > for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while > writing> > what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he > received a> > $1 million advance. In writing "The

Seduction of Hillary > Rodham," he> > realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.> > > > He documented this turnaround in his 2002 > autobiography, "Blinded by> > the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative."> > > > That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his> > neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media > Matters> > as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place> > conservative messages in the media.> > > > He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of> > radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as> > reported on www.mediamatters.org): "the most vile, despicable > human> > beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the> > country ... despicable, vile ankle biters."> >

> > And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review > of> > Brock's "Blinded by the Right," raises the question of whether > anyone> > can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.> > > > Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those > working for> > Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video, > audio> > and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws> > financial support from Democratic Party sources.> > > > "We are up-front about who we are," said Foser. "We are > progressives,> > and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits> > conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had > to> > print very few corrections."> > > > He added that "content, rather than intent, is what

> differentiates us> > from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias."> > > > Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's> > corrections to an ABC documentary called "Path to 9-11" and an> > accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that> > linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.> > > > "We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school> > children's hands," said Foser.> > > > Contact Brad Kava at bkava@ or (408) 920-5040. Read his> > radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> > How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media> > LeBoutillier> > Monday, July 18, 2005> > > > The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign > against> > Ed

Klein and his book "The Truth About Hillary," beginning > before the> > book was even published or available for advance readings.> > > > Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?> > > > Story Continues Below> > > > The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East > Coast> > elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York > Times,> > Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with> > pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known > as> > "advocacy journalism." In other words, they use their media > outposts> > to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending > their> > latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.> > > > snip>> > > > 2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book

appeared on June 8 in> > Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began > rebutting> > and distorting things in the book.> > > > FULL STORY:> > http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml> >> > > > > > > ---------------------------------> Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?> Check outnew cars at Autos.>

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You can believe some people on the web who are trusted sources.

Generally, the financial blogs are pretty good. Because they have their money at stake, they have to know what they are talking about. They generally are not liberal or conservative. They almost all lean libertarian. They do not trust the federal reserve or what is happening to prop up our capital markets. They are almost all anti-Iraq; they are almost all anti-big government. They are almost all natural health conscious and are quite knowledgeable on Codex.

I have found some of the resource people (precious metals, uranium traders, oil traders, especially the westcoast Canadians) reasonably honest about what is happening (even if you generally think traders are scoundrels), although they can go over the top quickly on tangents. I generally do not trust many of the traders/financial sources from CNBC or the big Wall Street trading houses, because I have found historically that they are playing me. I have found some of the gold bugs (those who gravitate to gold/silver as a reserve currency given what is happening to fiat currencies worldwide) somewhat honest, but they are a bit monomanical. I occasionally post something from one or more of these blogs because I really believe that is important information for all to know, even if you decide not to act on that information.

I generally trust what Ron tells me. He is a congressman from Texas who is the only libertarian member of congress. I don't necessarily agree with his policy constructs, but he generally doesn't bullshit everyone. He is way ahead of the curve on what is happening financially to the United States. He understands we are slowly becoming something akin to the old Soviet Union before its breakup at least with respect to the corrosive corruption, but we are much softer. He also fully understands the attempt to cut back on our civil liberties and on the constitution. The Don Imus affair is the most recent iteration of that retrenchment.

I generally do not trust most of the major media outlets. I believe that the major media outlets are concentrated in too few hands and consequently, can/do work hand in glove with the government. They are no longer a watchdog. We see that in healthcare, etc.

I mostly do not trust the NYTimes news/opinion section, because it is too agenda driven. However, I trust the Automobiles section and the Living Section. Real Estate is good too.

Unsurprisingly, with their lack of trust, they are supporting Hillary in a big way. That is why we are seeing so much dishonesty about vaccines in the NYTimes. However, I hear generally that mandatory vaccines is not really a winner issue for Hillary. LOL.

The NYTimes clearly is trying to jam Hillary down our throats, despite the irritation to the glottis.

You can sort of/mostly trust the Washington Post (with reservations). Actually this is by far the very best newspaper in the country. Much better than the Times, much better than the Boston Globe.

You generally can not trust the Los Angeles Times. MIckey Kaus (an independent, leaning liberal Democrat) constantly bangs on them for dishonesty.

You can sort of trust the Washington Times, although they tend to be reflexively conservative. On security matters, they tend to be reflexively pro-military, pro-defense.

You can occasionally trust the NYPost, but they are generally over the top.

You can sort of trust the libertarian newspapers- especially when it comes to health issues, including the vaccine issue. World Net Daily, publisher of Whistleblower, is generally trustworthy in these areas. They have a large fundamentalist following, so you have to factor that in.

You cannot trust any of the major networks for news. CBS is by far the worst, with ABC and CBS holding up the rear.

You cannot trust FoxNews or CNN.

You could trust MSNBC (especially Olbermann and Scarborough) before they canned Imus.

You can generally trust Russert (despite what Arianna Huffington says), although he is establishment media.

You could generally trust Bob Schieffer.

You could generally/almost always trust Don Imus, even if you did not agree with him. He had Hillary nailed. He follows/presents the more traditional financial information, which I find somewhat untrustworthy, given what else I am reading from people closer to the financial ground.

My two cents.

Re: Who is Media Matters for America?/How Hillary Controls the Media -2 stories

Quite honestly I am at the point where I feel like I can't believe ANYONE. Not my government, not the media, not my doctors etc. It drives you crazy. I was just reading something today about this "Operation Mockingbird" deal in which SUPPOSEDLY the CIA is involved with controlling the media... Again, SUPPOSEDLY, Bill O'Reilly is involved... somehow... Wiki it... But do you believe that or do you just continue not believing anyone and move on? That's sort of where I'm at.... believe no one. - In EOHarm , Krakow <rkrakow@...> wrote:>> I posted on this last week. Media Matters was founded by Brock, a > neocon political operative and dirty trickster in the 90's who > famously (he wrote a book) had a change of heart and became a Democrat. > He set up Media Matters as a media watchdog, pointing out > conservative/republican bias in the media. There are very close ties > with the Clintons.> > Does a picture begin to emerge?> > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:40 AM, searchingforserenity111 wrote:> > http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmentheadlines/ci_5657612? > nclick_check=1> > Group that exposed Imus angers conservatives> NON-PROFIT TOUTS RECORD OF CRITIQUING RIGHT-WING COMMENT> By Brad Kava> Mercury News> Article Launched: 04/13/2007 01:31:19 AM PDT> > While radio shock jock Don Imus was hanging up his cowboy hat and> getting canned Wednesday from his MSNBC TV show and then Thursday from> CBS for a racial slur made a week earlier, the Washington, D.C.,> organization Media Matters for America was scratching a notch on its > belt.> > In its third year, the non-profit with 50 employees and a budget of $3> million to $4 million was getting its biggest recognition so far for> its efforts to "monitor, analyze and correct conservative > misinformation."> > Over three years, and to the ire of the conservatives it targets, the> group had reported some 15 other examples of racist speech by the> popular in-the-Beltway host, as well as countless corrections to> reports in major media outlets, from the New York Times to Fox News.> But even it was surprised that the Imus incident was the spark that> caught fire.> > "We were the first to draw attention to the comments a week ago," said> Jamison Foser, the organization's managing director. "We focused a> great deal of effort to make sure that people understood this wasn't> an isolated incident, as he was claiming afterward."> > The outcry - and the result, as MSNBC went from suspending Imus to> firing him, as CBS did a day later - was a hopeful sign to Foser,> whose organization has traded shots with some of the loudest voices on> the air: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Bay Area locals > Savage and .> > "Maybe more will be done now that people see that, if> Advertisement> they speak out and take action, they will get results," said Foser,> 31, a former Democratic Party worker who organized Media Matters with> the better-known founder Brock.> > Brock is a lighting rod at the organization, a former conservative> writer who wrote what he said later was a largely fabricated> "Troopergate" story about Bill Clinton and a mostly fictitious book> about Anita Hill that made him a well-paid and highly praised> conservative operative.> > The editor at Berkeley's Daily Californian in 1981, and later a writer> for the Washington Times, he says he had an epiphany while writing> what was to be an expose` on Hillary Clinton for which he received a> $1 million advance. In writing "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," he> realized she wasn't as bad as he thought.> > He documented this turnaround in his 2002 autobiography, "Blinded by> the Right: The Conscience of a Conservative."> > That and his decision to come out as gay led him to question his> neoconservative stance, and eventually led him to form Media Matters> as a way to document what he described as a campaign to place> conservative messages in the media.> > He and Media Matters have drawn sharp criticism from the likes of> radio and television host Bill O'Reilly, who has called them (as> reported on www.mediamatters.org): "the most vile, despicable human> beings in the country ... the worst non-criminal element in the> country ... despicable, vile ankle biters."> > And from liberals, such as Slate's Noah, who in a review of> Brock's "Blinded by the Right," raises the question of whether anyone> can believe a man who in his book admits to being a liar.> > Brock declined to be interviewed for this story, but those working for> Media Matters stressed that the site's goal is to present video, audio> and printed evidence that stands on its own, even though it draws> financial support from Democratic Party sources.> > "We are up-front about who we are," said Foser. "We are progressives,> and we focus on misinformation in the media that benefits> conservatives. ... I would note that in three years we have had to> print very few corrections."> > He added that "content, rather than intent, is what differentiates us> from things on the right that just focus on allegations of bias."> > Along with the Imus scandal, Foser touted the organization's> corrections to an ABC documentary called "Path to 9-11" and an> accompanying Scholastic Books study guide for schoolchildren that> linked Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.> > "We got that recalled before they showed up in millions of school> children's hands," said Foser.> > Contact Brad Kava at bkava@... or (408) 920-5040. Read his> radio and music blog at www.mercextra.com/aei> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> How Hillary Clinton Controls the Media> LeBoutillier> Monday, July 18, 2005> > The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign against> Ed Klein and his book "The Truth About Hillary," beginning before the> book was even published or available for advance readings.> > Team Hillary's major ally in this anti-Klein effort?> > Story Continues Below> > The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprising mostly East Coast> elitist media institutions, i.e., CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, New York Times,> Washington Post, Newsweek and Time magazine - are staffed with> pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known as> "advocacy journalism." In other words, they use their media outposts> to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending their> latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.> > snip>> > 2. Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in> Vanity Fair, a pro-Hillary front group, Media Matters, began rebutting> and distorting things in the book.> > FULL STORY:> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/17/175559.shtml>