RSSAttempted Media Murder
Gene Lalor | March 28, 2011
You’re known as much by the enemies you keep as you are by your friends.
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America’s liberal mainstream media, long accustomed to virtually absolute dominance of both print and the airwaves, was initially unperturbed when Rush Limbaugh arrived on the scene in 1984 and it ho-hummed the inauguration of the Fox News Channel on cable barely 14 years ago since it had a steel grip on what ideas and news were disseminated for public consumption.
No more.
Since Limbaugh’s amazing success and the growth of conservative talk radio in general and, especially since Fox has galloped so far ahead of CNN, MSNBC and other leftist cable channels that the MSM can barely see its haunches in the distance, mainstreamers have grown, in turn, wary, concerned and recently apoplectic over the loss of its previous monopolistic control over what people hear, see, and think.
Of course, they still have a lock on televised news via ABC, CBS, and NBC and public radio with NPR but those networks are in rapid decline much like the New York Times. Unlike the Times, they may survive as minimalist news sources with their little niche of viewers who don’t have or want cable and listeners who prefer to be force-fed pap by NPR.
However, leftwingers aren’t about to surrender to Fox, yet.
In fact, at least one influential member of that media has now declared war, an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the Fox News Network which has morphed into an enemy rather than a competitor. Even worse, it’s an alleged arm of the Republican Party and that can no longer be tolerated nor will contentions the Democrats have owned the MSM for decades.
You’re known by the enemies you keep. You also know those enemies are being driven frantic by your success and influence when they declare all-out war.
The founder of the arch-lib attack website, MediaMatters.org, erstwhile arch-conservative and closeted homosexual, David Brock, experienced an epiphany some years back. Brock claimed in a 2002 book, Blinded by the Right, that he was, well, somehow blinded not by the light like St. Paul but by the evil right and immediately commenced making amends for all his conservative wrongs.
Brock’s politial-philosophical U-turn led him to become a hatchet man for the left with prolific writings and mea culpas including founding Media Matters which laughingly describes itself as a “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.”
Whether his site is profiting or not from its vile invective, it’s being kept in business by none other than Mr. Deep Pockets, leftist multibillionaire George Soros, and any claim to simply monitoring, analyzing, and correcting alleged conservative media misinformation was dispelled when it too exited the closet with its “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” declaration.
Targeting not only Fox but its parent company News Corp and its CEO, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News’ president and recognized guru, Roger Ailes, FNC executives and personalities such as Glenn Beck, and anyone else who stands in its way, Brock and his marauding mob of media murderers plan to disrupt and destroy.
A sympathetic piece on Politico.com defined the war as, “Media Matters’ shift from media critic to a new species of political animal” and its strategy as based on its stated theory that, “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:” http://politi.co/eiTx1W
As per usual, when a weak, pathetic foe takes on a powerful adversary which enjoys the advantage of truth and rectitude on its side, the good guys, the “right” guys, always win. Witness Air America.
Adding dollops of salt to Media Matters’ coming wounds, PajamasMedia.com speculates that Brock’s “war on Fox” may jeopardize Media Matters’ 501(c) legal status by its engagement in “partisan political activity.” The most crushing blow to Brock is that Roger Ailes absolutely loves all the attention and publicity FNC is getting.
Life is sweet. When avowed enemies grow desperate and get their comeuppance, it becomes even sweeter.
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