Media Matters Goes After Fox News

Well, their campaign against Rush Limbaugh didn't work out so well. So why not find another target to justify their existence? Maybe David Brock's starting to feel a little job insecurity. Has anyone ever been less effective in his job?

“We made a list of every single person who works for Fox and tried to figure out who might be disgruntled and why, and we went out to try to meet them,” Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt told Politico. “Somebody in that organization is giving us primary source documents.”

Rabin-Havt also told Politico that Media Matters was compiling “opposition research” files on “mid- and senior-level execs and producers.”

“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” read a 2010 memo by Brock that was acquired by Politico. “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/26/media-matters-developing-opposition-research-on-fox-has-list-of-every-single-person-at-network/#ixzz1HnnBsxTT