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Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a politically progressive media watchdog group which says it is "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Set up as a tax exempt, non-profit organization, MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and author David Brock. Eric E. Burns has been MMfA's president since its founding in 2004.
Media Matters for America defines "conservative misinformation" as "news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda."
Media Matters analyzes the dominant American news sources including NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Fox News Channel. Its techniques include content analysis, fact checking, monitoring, and comparison of quotes or presentations from media figures to primary documents such as Pentagon or Government Accountability Office reports.
On February 14, 2006, the organization released a study of the...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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National Review Sees "Gangsterism" Behind Komen's Planned Parenthood Shift - — Earlier today the Susan G. Komen Foundation released a statement “apologizing” for their decision earlier this week to cease grants to Planned Parenthood to pay for breast cancer screenings. |
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STUDY: The Press And The Pipeline - — A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents. Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue. |
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Huckabee Wants To Know If Obama Got College Loans "As A Foreign Student" - — During a Fox News appearance this evening, Mike Huckabee suggested that Mitt Romney, who has come under fire for refusing to immediately release his tax returns, respond by challenging President Obama to release … |
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UPDATED: CNN Contributor On Marines Urinating On Dead Bodies: "Supposed To Be A Scandal"? - “I'd Drop Trou And Do It Too” — On her radio show, CNN contributor and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch cheered on an Internet video reportedly showing U.S. Marines urinating on what appear to be dead Afghans … |
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Fox Celebrates Holidays With Outrageous Race-Based Attack On Obama - — Fox News' animosity toward President Obama, three years into his presidency, is by now well-known. This is the network that routinely calls Obama a socialist, accuses him of being involved in all sorts of conspiratorial plots, and claims that he hates America. |
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Cartoon Regularly Featured On Big Journalism Connected To Nazi-Era Magazine - — In at least three instances, Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism website has used an image connected to a Nazi-era German magazine noted for anti-Semitic cartoons and pro-Hitler leanings. |
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Today In Dishonest Fox News Charts Fox's Graphics Department Fails Mislabeling States Edition Bintx/Media Matters for America - — EXPAND ALL EXPAND 1ST LEVEL COLLAPSE ALL |
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Huh? Now Obamas Are Condemned For Celebrating Christmas Too Enthusiastically - — Man, this whole War on Christmas is getting confusing. — Right on cue, the right-wing media this month has been waging its annual battle to convince faithful followers that religious-hating liberals are at war … |
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Today In Dishonest Fox News Charts - — It looks like Fox is trying to mislead its viewers on the unemployment rate. Again. — On Monday, Fox News displayed a chart illustrating changes to the unemployment rate during 2011: — Note how the 8.6 percent unemployment rate in November looks higher … |
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Conservative media frequently accuse progressives of "raping" Americans - — Conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage frequently employ rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. For example, Beck said that New Yorkers are … |
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