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Media matters?

Big Muddy rancher

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Reader likes these guys. Wonder why?

On August 19, 2005, Media Matters posted an item regarding a letter that Cliff Kincaid, editor from the conservative, media watchdog organization Accuracy in Media, said he had received from an Afghan ambassador. Media Matters wrote that the letter was not a scanned document and that it "bears all the hallmarks of a do-it-yourself, cut-and-paste job."[23] Within hours of the post, Kincaid posted scanned images of the letter and envelope he said he had received, and wrote that Media Matters had accused him of "having fabricated or forged a letter from the Ambassador of Afghanistan." He characterized the piece as "defamatory" and criticized Media Matters for not obtaining his side of the story prior to publishing their item.[24] Media Matters then issued a subsequent post stating that Kincaid "misrepresented the original Media Matters item" and "failed to point out a single falsehood" in the item, which "simply pointed out that the letter as posted on the America's Survival website consisted of separate elements cobbled together from various sources."[25]

Bill O'Reilly, the subject of many Media Matters items and a frequent critic of Media Matters, has called them a "vile propaganda outfit … which specializes in distorting comments made by politicians, pundits, and media people."[26] O'Reilly said that he believes Media Matters took comments he made on his radio program to Juan Williams regarding a dinner with Al Sharpton in Harlem out of context.[27][28] O'Reilly said that the Media Matters piece put together two out of context comments that were initially spoken five minutes apart and presented them as one comment in an effort to mislead readers.[29] In an appearance on NBC's Today with Matt Lauer, Media Matters senior fellow Paul Waldman responded that they had included "the full audio, the full transcript, [and] nothing was taken out of context."[30] In response to the controversy, Williams wrote an editorial for Time noting that in his opinion "the attacks on O'Reilly amounted to an effort to take what he said totally out of context in an attempt to brand him a racist by a liberal group that disagrees with much of his politics."[31]
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Huh? Who'd a thunk it?

Funding sources

In May 2004, the New York Times reported that Media Matters has received "more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals" and "was developed with help from the newly formed Center for American Progress".[22]
 

hypocritexposer

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hypocritexposer

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reader (the Second) said:
Ah yes, the Illuminati again :wink:

nope, just a bunch of liberals sharing money around to get their message out.

biased sources. something you seem to have a problem with, but then use them to form your opinions.
 
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