Media Matters Declares Victory: 'The War On Fox Is Over'
Source: huffingtonpost
Conservative media, in other words, has become more fragmented; messages often move straight to legacy outlets like the nightly news, or become part of the national conversation by leapfrogging the press entirely.
Carusone argued that Media Matters' focus on traditional outlets is more important than ever, especially given the changing nature of the news business and the staffing cuts happening in many places.
"These outlets are not our enemy. We do not have a hostile posture toward them," he said. "But in some ways, because they're vulnerable, because the right-wing echo chamber is so well-funded and so loud, there's a role and a posture that we have to take that's very different from the one we had in the past. It doesn't mean that we don't listen to the regular players anymore, but it just means that structurally, we have to think about how we make sense of it."
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.... and that the Koch Brothers sponsor on PBS with $$$millions to Nova.
It's certainly not just the traditional corporate media that now parrot RW bullshit, but even NPR and PBS.
The former NPR board member that is now the acting CEO of NPR is a former financial industry lobbyist who donates heavily to Republicans (over $30,000 personally to Paul Ryan) and who has ties to at least 2 right wing think tanks.
Yet NPR still wears the (pseudo-) "liberal" banner (It's mission now seems to be to peddle Fox "News" right wing talking points to those who like to think of themselves as "moderates", and other swing voters.)
Right Wing talking points are MORE dangerous when accepted and peddled by ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS than they are when peddled by Fox, Rush, Hannity et al to the GOP base.
Media Matters has done a wonderful job, but the corporate & "public" media has become more corrupted in the last few years.
So it's about time Media Matters broaden their mission to include media other that the official partisan media of the right, and expose the swallowing of right wing memes by the "mainstream" and so-called "liberal" media.
