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Media Matters Ignores Right
Wing Attacks on Rosie O'Donnell
9/11
Blogger
Sunday April 1, 2007
Another indication of media blackout on 9/11 issues:
Media Matters has failed to report on any of the recent "conservative"
media's feeding frenzy on Rosie O'Donnell and their vitriolic attacks
on her First Amendment rights, which include calling for her dismissal
and execution. Media Matters just this week published a blog on
the site defending the repulsive Ann Coulter: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/page.php?a=32662
With any other topic, Media Matters would have sent out press releases,
blogged, and posted the information on their front page. They routinely
monitor all Fox broadcasts and other Administration stenographic
media personalities, calling them on misinformation, unprofessional
conduct, and the like. According to their webpage:
Media Matters for America is 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. Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America
put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor
a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet
media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary
that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the
conservative agenda — every day, in real time. Using the website
www.mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating
research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items
as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative
misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters
works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general
public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the
resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against
offending media institutions.
Before Rosie began talking about 9/11, they reported several times
on their front page that Glenn Beck had called her a "fat witch,"
and included his retraction that stated he shouldn't have said "witch"
but stands by his critique of her size. However, I have found no
mention of the past week's disgusting display by the Reich Wing
media. I sent them an email, calling them on this bizarre and inexplicable
exclusion. In a more disciplined fashion, I asked:
Hey, guys, what are you so afraid of? A bit of a funding conflict?
Isn't this where the rubber meets the road?
Here is the link for the contact page, if anyone else wants to
weigh in: http://mediamatters.org/contact_us
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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