Shouldn't this thread be in the Media forum?
BTW, where's the Media Matters report over how biased MSNBC is? And where's your indignant post about that?
Biased is one thing, supporting and coordinating directly with campaigns is another.
Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations | The Daily Caller
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A group with the ability to shape news coverage is of incalculable value to the politicians it supports, so its no surprise that Media Matters has been in regular contact with political operatives in the Obama administration. According to visitor logs, on June 16, 2010, Brock and then-Media Matters president Eric Burns traveled to the White House for a meeting with Valerie Jarrett, arguably the presidents closest adviser. Recently departed Obama communications director Anita Dunn returned to the White House for the meeting as well.
Its not clear what the four spoke about no one in the meeting returned repeated calls for comment but the apparent coordination continued. Anita Dunn became a regular presence at the office, says someone who worked there. Then-president of Media Matters, Eric Burns, lunched with her, met with her and chatted with her frequently on any number of matters.
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Media Matters also began a weekly strategy call with the White House, which continues, joined by the liberal Center for American Progress think tank. Jen Psaki, Obamas deputy communications director, was a frequent participant before she left for the private sector in October 2011.
Every Tuesday evening, meanwhile, a representative from Media Matters attends the Common Purpose Project meeting at the Capitol Hilton on 16th Street in Washington, where dozens of progressive organizations formulate strategy, often with a representative from the Obama White House.
In the past several years, Media Matters has focused much of its considerable energy on the Fox News Channel. The network, declares one internal memo, is the de facto leader of the GOP and it is long past time that it was treated as such by the media, elected officials, and the public. At the end of September 2009, Burns made the case publicly in an interview on MSNBC.
Fox, he said, is a political organization, and their aim is to destroy a progressive policy agenda.
Less than a month later, in language that could have been copied directly from a Media Matters press release, White House communications director Anita Dunn leveled almost precisely the same charge, dismissing Fox as more a wing of the Republican Party.
Further:
Justice Department Caught Coordinating with Media Matters to Spin Press | Habledash
Here are some of the details:
Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holders communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and Americas top law enforcement agency.
Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holders top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden on attacking news coverage of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.
Holden attacked former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky on Sept. 20, 2010 for what he called an attempt to reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.
Before Holden posted his article at 7:52 p.m., Schmaler sent him several emails with information helping him attack both former DOJ oficials.
But I certainly don't expect you to condemn MM.