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Originally Posted by djtestudo
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I do not expect you to like it, but if you bother to research what the article from
mediamatters.org outlines in it's analysis of Fox News coverage of the Red Cross
"controversy", which Fox, itself seems to have contrived and self-promoted, you will notice that every statement, is backed by a link to a source that can be further examined.....the Red Cross website, describing it's federal charter and it's mission, as well as transcripts of all of Fox media personalities misleading statements, and MSM reporting that contradicts the statements broadcast by Fox.
You do not have to like what David Brock has done in just over a year, but you do have to grudgingly accept it. It has become mainstream, with it's articles cited and challenged, more often than not, by columnists and pundits on the right. If mediamatters was not perceived to be credible and effective in challenging the Scaife and Murdoch propaganda that Rove depends on to broadcast his smears, why would it get so much resistance from the right?
It is perceived to expose the falsehoods in the ceaseless stream of misinformation that eminates from Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al, because it is successful at doing so.
I cite the articles because they are so rich in links to supporting sources, and they usually do a more thorough job of debunking crap like Fox's fake investigative reporting by it's Major Garrett that Alladin and stevo have offered to this thread as some kind of 'break through journalism", than I could.
You can see for yourself on
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News that associated press member newspapers, TV and radio, are not covering Fox news brilliant report Garrett's investigative "news" about the Red Cross being blocked from providing aid in N.O.
Show me an instance where anyone on the right would make accusations like these against Fox, the Washington Times, or the WSJ, for example.....
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200509100002
Wash. Post echoed Bush administration's false claim that federal agencies
In a September 9 Washington Post article, staff writer Bradley Graham falsely claimed that under the National Response Plan (NRP) developed after 9-11, federal agencies "are supposed to function as backup to state and local ones" in the event of a catastrophe, echoing statements made by Bush administration officials. ..........
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http://mediamatters.org/archives/sea...tring=ny+times
NY Times reprinted without contradiction Bush's ...
NY Times reprinted without contradiction Bush's false claim that nobody "anticipated the breach of the levees"...
Saturday September 3, 2005
NY Times advanced Bush administration's dubious ...
NY Times advanced Bush administration's dubious suggestion that FEMA is "better prepare[d]" to handle hurricane crisis than before 9-11...
Thursday September 1, 2005
NY Times glossed over existing conservative pre ...
archives. ... NY Times glossed over existing conservative presence in public broadcasting. In ...
Tuesday May 3, 2005
NY Times article omitted key facts about CPB's ...
Topics. ... archives. ... NY Times article omitted key facts about CPB's new ombudsmen. In a ...
Monday May 2, 2005
NY Times article omits key information about co ...
NY Times article omits key information about conservative ties of CPB hires. Repeating ...
Monday May 16, 2005
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200505030002
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Horowitz's concession that claims he made against a college professor in Colorado were phony.
Media Matters' action campaigns have been credited with MSNBC canceling plans to let a partisan pollster, Frank Luntz, conduct the network's presidential debate focus groups; pressuring Sinclair Broadcast Group to abandon its plan to force its local stations to air an anti-John Kerry propaganda film, billed as "news," 10 days before the election; and prompting ABC's John Stossel to publicly defend his efforts to cast the threat of global warming as "just another foolish media-hyped scare." We also successfully pushed to get paid propagandist Armstrong Williams's column dropped by his syndicate............
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