Posted on 12/20/2016 5:13:23 PM PST by blam
Danny Johnston
December 20, 2016
Clio Chang and Alex Shephard write in The New Republic about the organizational shake-up and shift in focus at the leftwing media watchdog Media Matters for America. The brainchild of its Clinton ally founder David Brock, Media Matters now seeks to reinvent itself in a post-Clinton world. Brock has recently stated that he hopes to transform his social media platform Shareblue into a “Breitbart of the left.” But Clinton’s electoral loss offers a unique challenge for Media Matters because, as Chang and Shephard report, “[t]he organization had long ceased to be a mere watchdog, having positioned itself at the center of a group of public relations and advocacy outfits whose mission was to help put Clinton in the White House.” From The New Republic:
The allegiance to the Clintons has always sat uncomfortably beside Media Matters’s ostensible goal of holding media accountable. Any journalist on Twitter knows that even mild criticisms of Clinton would almost instantaneously raise the hackles of some Media Matters staffer, giving the distinct impression that the whole project was about protecting Clinton from unflattering press rather than ensuring journalistic integrity. But Media Matters depended heavily on its association with the Clintons. Brock, a formerly conservative journalist who wrote a biography of Clinton that portrayed her as a hardcore leftist Lady Macbeth, has always been an object of suspicion among liberals, his conversion reeking of snake oil. His elevated stature in the world of Democratic politics comes not from any deep roots in liberalism, but the fact that the Clintons blessed his enterprise. That Media Matters both checks conservative media and protects the Clintons has been instrumental in Brock’s ability to raise money for his nonprofit empire, which also includes the website Shareblue (formerly Blue Nation Review) and the super PACs
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Maybe reconstitute as the Invisible Man.
‘nonprofit empire’
Seems to me this is the root of the problem that needs to be flushed out, by a Trump DOJ perhaps.
Sounds like Brock was bought out by the Clintons
Media Matters, Brock and Soros all need to be federally investigated for their dishonesty and possible security threats.
Brock is a wacko and Soros is one of the most evil enemies of America in the world. Both are threats to America way beyond legitimate dissent.
Overturn some rocks and let’s see what crawls out.
Here’s the deal: you can be openly “liberal,” openly “conservative,” or you can pretend to be neither. That is the posture which journalists, until this election, have traditionally assumed. They have always been negative towards society and naive towards government, however - and that is a precise description of a “liberal."
Media Matters ? I wouldn’t call it the Axis of Evil, but the Anus of Evil (especially with David Brock).
> Sounds like Brock was bought out by the Clintons
Oh, that happened in the early ‘90’s I seem to recall.
Media Matters needs to be held accountable for the Clinton’s. Someone, if not the Clinton’s has to take the fall and why not David Brock? This is the Republicans first target in the war to destroy the Clinton News Network.
He may have significant tax problems coming
The Lamprey has been dislodged from Clinton’s ass?
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