Last March, the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America declared what Politico called an "all-out campaign" of "guerrilla warfare and sabotage" against Fox News.
In an expose at the Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson wrote that in 2009, Karl Frisch suggested hiring "private investigators to look into the personal lives of Fox News anchors, hosts, reporters, prominent contributors, senior network and corporate staff" in a memo emailed to Media Matters founder David Brock and president Eric Burns.
According to Carlson:
“Simply put,” Frisch wrote, “the progressive movement is in need of an enemy. George W. Bush is gone. We really don’t have John McCain to kick around any more. Filling the lack of leadership on the right, Fox News has emerged as the central enemy and antagonist of the Obama administration, our Congressional majorities and the progressive movement as a whole.”
“We must take Fox News head-on in a well funded, presidential-style campaign to discredit and embarrass the network, making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers.”
“We should look into contracting with a major law firm to study any available legal actions that can be taken against Fox News, from a class action law suit to defamation claims for those wronged by the network. I imagine this would be difficult but the right law firm is bound to find some legal ground for us to take action against the network,” he added.
From the tone of the memo as reported by Carlson, it seems Frisch suggested stalking Fox employees.
"We should also hire a team of trackers to stake out private and public events with Fox News anchors, hosts, reporters, prominent contributors and senior network/corporate staff.”
Carlson noted:
How many of these tactics did Media Matters actually engage in? Sources inside the organization either don’t know or won’t say, although one did confirm that Media Matters dispatched trackers to events featuring Fox News employees, including to at least one where News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch spoke.
According to Carlson, Frisch even suggested convincing wealthy filmmaker Michael Moore to make a "documentary" about Fox News.
Carlson continues:
Finally, the memo suggests that drones in the Media Matters research department ought to ghost-write an extended hit on the network: “[W]e should write a book under David’s name that savages Fox News and Fox News employees. The market for this is likely huge.”
Is it? We’ll see next week, when that book is released.
According to its website, Media Matters claims to be:
a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
But it is clear from its activities that Media Matters is not about "monitoring" or "analyzing" anything. Instead, it is clearly an activist organization willing to do anything to advance its radical left wing agenda. And if the privacy of a few Fox News employees is violated, so much the better.
Last June, C. Boyden Gray, an attorney who served as a White House counsel in the administration of President George H. W. Bush, wrote that Media Matter's "war on Fox" may "disallow its tax-exempt status."
MMA’s activities should disallow its tax-exempt status in two fundamental ways. First, IRS rulings make clear that attacks on individuals, statement of positions that are unsupported by facts and use of inflammatory language and other distortions will cost an organization its tax-free status. Second, in declaring “guerrilla warfare” on Fox as the “leader” and “mouthpiece” of the Republican Party and in developing a sophisticated Democratic-leaning media training boot camp, MMA has transformed itself into an aggressive advocate for Democratic and progressive causes and thus produced a second deviation from exempt educational activities.
What MMA actually is doing, however, moves far afield from identifying possible bias to mounting a campaign to undermine a major media outlet and to promote the Democratic Party and progressive causes associated with it. Mr. Brock himself has described this new strategy as “a war on Fox,” an effort “to disrupt [Rupert Murdoch‘s] commercial interests” and look for ways to turn regulators against News Corp.’s media outlets.
In the first installment in a series exposing the progressive group, Carlson and Vince Coglianese wrote that memos revealed the group basically writes what many viewers see in the Democrat-media complex and works very closely with the White House.
According to the Daily Caller, Media Matters "intends to spend nearly $20 million in 2012 to influence news coverage."
What this means is that much of what the public will see on many news programs this election cycle is little more than Soros-approved propaganda.
Anyone concerned about the state of modern journalism should take the time to read both installments of the expose. It is no wonder a majority of voters believe the so-called mainstream media - known here as the Democrat-media complex - is biased and unethical.
More on liberal media bias at Examiner.com here.
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