Media Matters....A War on Fox

Media matters has decided to go to war against Fox News.

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

The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/03 ... z1HuUa7Zfp

Place your bets! Who will win the war?

Both sides (and most spectators) will wind up saying stupid crap and looking like complete idiots. In the end, we'll all be a little dumber for having paid attention to a worthless spat.

Why should Americans be caught up in another war?

I'm just glad they've finally dropped their false facade and come clean with what their mission has been from the start. They never were an impartial source that one could trust to accurately represent the truth or fiction of news reporting, though this was the image they wished to have conveyed.

No, from day one they've been nothing more than, how did our president frame it, a group with a harmless sounding name representing special interests without telling you who they were or how they were funded. Of course the president likely doesn't think that this group is a problem for democracy, only the ones that oppose turning our republic into a democracy fall under that particular umbrella in his view.

PrintSmith wrote: I'm just glad they've finally dropped their false facade and come clean with what their mission has been from the start. They never were an impartial source that one could trust to accurately represent the truth or fiction of news reporting, though this was the image they wished to have conveyed.

You're absolutely right... Oh.... You were talking about Media Matters... I thought you were talking about Fox.

Media Matters sounds like the ACORN of media.

There is a difference between news content and opinion content in any mass media my friend. I would absolutely concur with you that the editorial board at Fox is biased towards a conservative viewpoint as surely as you would concede that the editorial board at NBC, MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, CBS, ABC and many other news organizations has a progressive viewpoint. I'm certain that we would both agree that the editorial stance also bleeds into the flavor of the reporting, sometimes subtly, other times strongly, regardless of which mass media organization is being talked about. That is to be expected, is it not?

Surprisingly, well not so much to me as perhaps it was to Media Matters and progressives in general, FOX consistently ranks as the most trustworthy news source. It doesn't matter if it is the BBC, Zogby, Reuters, or Public Policy Polling conducting the survey - Fox emerges as the most trustworthy in all of them. PPP recently noted that only FOX was trusted by more people than it was mistrusted by. No other network can make that claim. CNN finished well regardless of the partisan leanings of the one being asked, finishing 2nd among Republicans, Independents and Democrats, indicating it might be the least polarizing of all of them, but only FOX showed it was trusted by more people than it was mistrusted by.

PrintSmith wrote: PPP recently noted that only FOX was trusted by more people than it was mistrusted by. No other network can make that claim. CNN finished well regardless of the partisan leanings of the one being asked, finishing 2nd among Republicans, Independents and Democrats, indicating it might be the least polarizing of all of them, but only FOX showed it was trusted by more people than it was mistrusted by.

And there are studies (which have already been posted in this forum) which show that Fox has the dumbest, most ignorant and ill-informed audience of all the networks... Duh! No wonder they "trust" it... It tells them what they want to hear--but that does not equate to FACTS.

Here are just a few of Fox News journalists at work:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/2 ... ml#s258630

Something the Dog Said wrote: Here are just a few of Fox News journalists at work:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/2 ... ml#s258630

Wow, I bet ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN and NPR never make mistakes with graphics.... because they are just plain smarter... you guys are something else.