Posted on 12/08/2014 8:52:59 PM PST by richardb72
Media Matters has long advertised to the public a commitment to fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating misinformation of its own.
The nonprofit generally targets Republicans and is regularly cited by pundits and news outlets. More recently, the group engaged in what could best be called a smear campaign against John Lott, an economist, firearms researcher, and Founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center. For more than a decade, Lott has developed a unique public profile as an expert on guns and society, who combines advocacy with substantial data and academic rigor.
Media Matters has devoted 87 posts to attacking Lott during a seven year span, with the objective of discrediting him personally and countering the guns rights movement. Making this situation interesting is that Media Matters, in its campaign against Lott, has apparently crossed the boundary from reporting misinformation to systematically generating it.
In seven years of writing about Lott and referring to his work, the organization prevented Lott from speaking out on his own behalf on the site, despite his consistent endeavors to do so. When Lott tried to leave comments on Media Matters articles, a site administrator deleted them. Other comments never got posted at all.
In one instance the site even deleted comments from Lott, in which he explained to Media Matters readers why his eyebrows are disfigured due to surgery he had when he was young. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Lately?
Disinformation has been their mission since inception.
That said, until Breitbart cleans up substantially its uber-junk-filled site (ads upon multiple ads so content is difficult to access), I'll forgo the visit and the info.
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John Lott is a hero.
Get an ad blocker. How does anyone live without one?
bttt
When is O’Keefe going after the bone smugglers at Media Matters?
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