Media Matters' war against Fox

Media Matters' war against Fox

America needs another McCarthy to investigate Media Matters and George Soros for un-American activities.

McCarthy investigated Communism, but now we need to investigate Atheism.

Atheism in American is just as destructive as Communism.

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Media Matters' war against Fox

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

By BEN SMITH | 3/26/11 7:23 AM EDT Updated: 3/27/11 5:06 PM EDT

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html#ixzz1HzfzirSu

Example of Yellow Journalism

Example of Yellow Journalism

The following is an example of Yellow Journalism. The headline implies great danger, but he story says there is no danger. The person that made up the headline is an yellow jounalist.

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Tokyo water sample shows radioactive iodine: government

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/19/us-japan-water-idUSTRE72I29J20110319

TOKYO | Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:57am EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - A sample of tap water from the Japanese capital shows a tiny level of radioactive iodine after an earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear power plant 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, the government said on Saturday.

The sample contained 1.5 becquerals per kg of iodine 131, well below the tolerable limit for food and drink of 300 becquerals per kg, the government added.

Jiji news agency said the presence of radioactive iodine in Tokyo tap water was rare.

Fukushima Power Plant Yellow Journalism

Fukushima Power Plant Yellow Journalism

Shepard Smith says there is an apocalypse situation at the Fukushima Power Plant, but the following report by Tokyo Electric is totally different. Someone is lying.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031906-e.html

No New Developments since 9:00pm, 19th March

Unit Status
1 • Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
available.
• No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
• Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
restraint.
2 • Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
available.
• No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
• Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
restraint.
3 • Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
available.
• No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
• Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
restraint.
4 • Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
available.
• No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
• Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
restraint.

I believe the problem is yellow journalism by an irresponsible headline grabbing news media that is being fed false and misleading information by anti nuclear environmentalists that are speculating to the point of lying. I believe some of the statements made by anti nuclear environmentalists are intentional lies.

I believe a part of the problem is the news media is mostly anti nuclear so they are looking for anti nuclear lies to use for headline grabbing. The news media was into global warming, which indicates to me they are biased toward environmentalist positions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Yellow journalism or the yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension "Yellow Journalism" is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.

Campbell (2001) defines Yellow Press newspapers as having daily multi-column front-page headlines covering a variety of topics, such as sports and scandal, using bold layouts (with large illustrations and perhaps color), heavy reliance on unnamed sources, and unabashed self-promotion. The term was extensively used to describe certain major New York City newspapers about 1900 as they battled for circulation.

Frank Luther Mott (1941) defines yellow journalism in terms of five characteristics:[1]

1. scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news
2. lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings
3. use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudo-science, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts
4. emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips (which is now normal in the U.S.)
5. dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the system.

Someone is lying and if there is no apocalypse at the Fukushima Power Plant I expect Shepard Smith to resign. I certainly will never consider an words out of Shepard Smiths mouth to ever to be the truth.

Freedom of the press requires the press act responsibly.

Atheistic Liberal News Media

Atheistic Liberal News Media

For many years, I have stated my concern about the Atheistic Liberal News and Entertainment Industry that I believe has perverted America from being a Christian Nation.

http://narj-clirus.blogspot.com/

It is good to see other people agree (see comments to news story) with my position on the Atheistic Liberal News Media.

Some would say that it is unfair to add, "Atheistic", but I believe there is a symbiotic relation between liberalism and Atheism.

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Evening News Ratings: 2009-2010 Season
By Chris Ariens on Sep 21, 2010 11:45 AM

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/evening_news_ratings/evening_news_ratings_20092010_season__174003.asp

The ratings are in the for just-completed 2009-2010 network evening news season. And when compared to 2008-2009 season, "NBC Nightly News" ABC's "World News" and the "CBS Evening News" have lost a combined 739,000 Total Viewers and a combined 338,000 A25-54 viewers.

"Nightly News with Brian Williams," which finishes at #1 for the 14th season in a row, lost the least: -138K Total Viewers (8.698M in 08-09 v. 8.560M in 09-10), while Katie Couric's CBS program, lost the most: -343K (6.053M in 08-09 v 5.710M in 09-10). "World News" which saw Charles Gibson anchor the first few months of the season, and Diane Sawyer picking up in December, lost the most younger viewers: -221K (2.351M in 08-09 v. 2.130 in 09-10).


BiggEd - What do you expect? They shoved an ill qualified presidential candidate, Barak Obama down our throat, "for our own good". Never asking the hard questions, even once. Just fawning over him and his platitudes, with "chills running down their legs".
Meanwhile they beat the snot out of a more qualified female conservative, Governor Palin, taking cheap shots and with careful editing they made her look silly.
The American public is not stupid, it's time to pay the piper Katie, Charlie, Chris and Keith. We're mad as hell and we ain't gonna take it anymore!
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Jamalagrin - The three, so called main news media, is nothing but a mouth piece for the Obama Administration and liberalism. The American people by the droves are turning to fair and balanced news from Fox News, The Internet, and Talk Radio.
Very soon, the only ones watching these loser news stations will be hard core socialists and these loser network people themselves.
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amplover1 -Who cares. Thinking people do not watch network news. These networks' teleprompter readers simply regurgitate the talking points supporting the dictatorship. Most people watch their local news (biased against the citizens as it often is) and this leads into these leftist Marxist biased broadcasts. If it wasn't for local news, nobody would watch it. When they bring back journalists, and stop cheerleading the destruction of our nation, perhaps their fortunes will improve. Frankly, the success of CNN and MSNBC on cable should also tell them something. Williams, Sawyer, Couric - - these are not journalists. They are Democrat party propaganda experts.
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John Steinbeck -
The network news work hand in hand with the democrat/socialist party.

Everything they do or report is driven by that fact.

If it helps democrats report it loudly. If it helps GOP bury it. If it hurts democrats bury it, if it hurts GOP scream it loudly.

Anyone with a brain knows this is true and the networks trying to deny this truth just makes them more and more irrelevant.

For years the networks tried to hide this fact but during the last decade and certainly during the election of Obama, the networks came completely out of the closet and showed their collusion with the cheer-leading they did for Obama.

When the final nail is driven into the coffin of the liberal biased media and they're buried 6 feet under, I will dance on their grave.
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alvinjh - The news networks never believed that people were offended by their constant left wing preaching. They never even TRIED to be fair in their coverage. I stopped watching them about 4 years ago. I don't miss them. And yes, I watch a lot of Fox News, and I read the International press online. Couric in particular irritated me with her disrespectful and haughty treatment of President Bush. We are a polarized people now. We have chosen sides. Too bad the network executives thought their job was to lead us to a particular destination rather than provide information and let us decide where we wanted to go ourselves. Well, that was their choice.
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BBC had "massive bias to left:" director general

BBC had "massive bias to left:" director general

The Atheistic Liberal News Media of America needs to make the same confression.

It is about time young journalists use Matt Drudge as a roll model instead of Walter Cronkite..

BBC had "massive bias to left:" director general
Sep 2 05:37 AM US/Eastern

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.91cc350cfed23f483b23ec44acc183c7.201&show_article=1

The director general of the BBC admitted that his organisation had been gui...

The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a "massive bias to the left" but said "a completely different generation" of journalists now works at the broadcaster.

Mark Thompson told the right-of-centre Spectator magazine that there was an institutional bias when he joined the organisation, reinforcing the findings of a 2007 internal report which concluded that greater efforts were required to avoid liberal bias.

"In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left," Thompson said.

"The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher."Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC," he added.

The 2007 report criticised the organisation?s slow response to the rise of Euroscepticism and immigration concerns, which it said were considered "'off limits? in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone."

Outlining his hopes for the relationship between the national broadcaster and thenew Conservative-led coalition government, Thompson said: "What we want is an effective and businesslike relationship with government -- it's not about personal relations."

Another journalist wakes up

Another journalist wakes up

Politics and journalism is a symbiotic relationship where most journalists in America support the Socialistic positions of the democratic party.

The symbiotic relationship is evil, but the support for Atheism by most journalists has been even more devastating to America.

The major question is whether the Atheistic Liberal News Media is the propaganda wing of the democratic party or the democratic party is the political wing of the Atheistic Liberal News Media.

A good journalists is a person that presents both sides of an issue and lets the reader decide which side to support. The journalist should state which side of the issue they support, so the bias of the journalists is clear.

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Journolist veers out of bounds

By ROGER SIMON | 7/28/10 4:36 AM EDT
Updated: 7/28/10 5:25 AM EDT

Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein appears on a television show.
Ezra Klein founded Journolist in 2007.

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This may be the most embarrassing thing I have ever written — and looking back on my writing, there is a lot of competition for that dubious distinction — but when I became a reporter, it was almost a holy calling.

We really believed we were doing good. We informed the public and helped make democracy work. We exposed wrongdoing wherever we found it. We reported without fear or favor. As a columnist, I tried to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I warned you that this would be embarrassing.

We loved what we did, and we did it with passion. We were proud. We felt — I am just going to go ahead and say it — honorable.

There were wrongdoers. Fakers, plagiarists, those with private agendas who wished to slant the news. When found, they were often fired. Even when they were subjected to a lesser punishment, their sins were made clear as a lesson to the rest of us. (At a few papers, those who wished to slant the news were publishers or editors who wished to please their publishers. They were rarely fired. But their numbers were few.)

The lines were not muddy. You played it straight. Even if you were a columnist and allowed to publish your opinions, you were expected to be fair and accurate.

At the end of the day, you often went home feeling good. And when people asked what you did, you replied with pride, not shame.

It was, as I said, almost a holy calling. (And often accompanied by a vow of poverty.)

Somewhere along the way, things have gone terribly wrong. Journalism has become a toy, an electronic plaything. I do not blame technology. The giant megaphone of technology has been coupled with a new, angrier, more destructive age. (Yes, you can find extremely angry, extremely partisan times in our past, but I always thought the goal was to progress over the centuries, not regress.)

Until recently, there was a semisecret, off-the-record organization called Journolist. It was a listserv, which is a bunch of people who sign up (if allowed) and then get the same e-mails and can reply to everybody on the list.

Journolist was founded by Ezra Klein in early 2007, when he was 22 and working for the liberal publication The American Prospect. Klein continued running it when he went to The Washington Post in 2009. The Post is a mainstream publication, but Journolist was limited to those "from nonpartisan to liberal, center to left."

Klein determined who would get on Journolist — political reporters, academics, think tank members, left-wing bloggers — and it grew from a manageable 30 members to a pretty unmanageable 400. There was no censorship, but if Klein felt you had gone too far, he would tell you to stop it. You could be threatened with expulsion, but nobody was ever expelled.

The first story revealing the existence of Journolist was printed by POLITICO in March 2009, but while the names of a few members (including three people at POLITICO) were revealed, and some talked about it, most would not. (I was never a member and learned about it when the public did.) No actual e-mails were printed.

Recently, however, the conservative website The Daily Caller, run by Tucker Carlson, got hold of many Journolist e-mails and printed the most provocative, which to some gave every appearance of a left-wing conspiracy to slant news coverage in favor of Barack Obama. Journolist posts by Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, who was helping cover the conservative movement, that were critical of conservative icons, including Matt Drudge, prompted Weigel to resign.

The result was explosive, and Klein closed down Journolist, while denying there was anything evil about it. "If people had been getting together and deciding on a message and then publishing that message, that would have been clearly unethical, and I would not have allowed it, and it didn't happen," Klein told me Tuesday.

Tucker Carlson e-mailed me: "What they did discredits journalism in general, and honorable liberal journalists in particular. I know plenty of progressives who have a healthy skepticism even of candidates they voted for. Most of the members of Journolist didn't."

In any case, the hubbub is now virtually over. The buzz is done buzzing, and the media have moved on from Journolist to WikiLeaks.

And yet some are still troubled.

Chuck Todd, political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC News, who was not part of Journolist, told me this:

"I am sure Ezra had good intentions when he created it, but I am offended the right is using this as a sledgehammer against those of us who don't practice activist journalism.

"Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got mixed in with journalists with an agenda. Those folks who thought they were improving journalism are destroying the credibility of journalism.

"This has kept me up nights. I try to be fair. It's very depressing."

I know how he feels. Klein appears to be a very honorable guy, but I think he created a Frankenstein monster without meaning to do so. I vowed I would never pine for the Good Old Days — I believe the Good Old Days are ahead of us — but let me end with the words of Stanley Walker. He was a famous newspaper editor in the 1920s and '30s and wrote the following, which I have edited for space. (And if he were writing today, I am reasonably sure he would have included women.)

"What makes a good newspaperman? The answer is easy. He knows everything. He is aware not only of what goes on in the world today, but his brain is a repository of the accumulated wisdom of the ages.

"He hates lies and meanness and sham, but keeps his temper. He is loyal to his paper and to what he looks upon as his profession; whether it is a profession or merely a craft, he resents attempts to debase it.

"When he dies, a lot of people are sorry, and some of them remember him for several days."

Or at least for several news cycles.

Roger Simon is POLITICO's chief political columnist.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40308_Page2.html#ixzz0uydPx8ki

The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy

The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy

The only real question is whether the Left-Wing Media is the propaganda wing of the democratic party or the democratic party is the political wing of the Left-Wing Media.

Anyone that listens or watches a news/views broadcast must realize that what is being presented is biased.

A bias/spin is not a lie. A bias/spin is to tell that part of the story that supports your position and to not tell that part of the story that does not support your position.

Until Fox, the news/views were all biased for the democrats and now with Fox there is a bias for the Republicans.

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The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy

Everyone knew most of the press corps was hoping for Obama in 2008. Newly released emails show that hundreds of them were actively working to promote him.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704684604575381083191313448.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion=

By FRED BARNES

When I'm talking to people from outside Washington, one question inevitably comes up: Why is the media so liberal? The question often reflects a suspicion that members of the press get together and decide on a story line that favors liberals and Democrats and denigrates conservatives and Republicans.

My response has usually been to say, yes, there's liberal bias in the media, but there's no conspiracy. The liberal tilt is an accident of nature. The media disproportionately attracts people from a liberal arts background who tend, quite innocently, to be politically liberal. If they came from West Point or engineering school, this wouldn't be the case.

Now, after learning I'd been targeted for a smear attack by a member of an online clique of liberal journalists, I'm inclined to amend my response. Not to say there's a media conspiracy, but at least to note that hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism.