Posted on 03/26/2011 6:29:06 PM PDT by mandaladon
Media criticism has been the bread and butter of the blogosphere from its opening days, especially for conservatives who pushed back against the liberal bias of the mainstream media. The scope of those efforts have run the gamut from fact-checking news pieces to exposing biases of top-ranking executives, such as Eason Jordan at CNN. Media Matters for America was formed as a left-wing analog to the more grassroots efforts in the conservative blogosphere to push back against the pushback and to focus criticism on conservative news and opinion outlets, including Hot Air on more than one occasion.
All of this is perfectly fair game. Media critique is a game anyone can play, and it’s hard to argue that this kind of accountability is somehow bad for business. But is it legitimate to declare that these efforts will consist of “sabotage” and “guerilla warfare”?
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 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Let them devote their time, money, and energy on monitoring Fox around the clock. They should hire still more people, even. Some of them will have their eyes opened, learn something, and then realize conservatism is not only more valid, but the only sane option for these times. Then they’ll join us here and give us inside information on the leftist loons. What they write and relate will expand the right’s influence and reach, and then Media Matters et al. will have to hire more to monitor us if they want to try and keep up. It’s a positive feedback cycle.
“.Libs are getting desperate. “
More specifically, The Messiah and Georgie Porgie Sorosky are getting desperate.
Ah, the "New Civility" required after the Tucson shootings.
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