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Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a politically progressive[2] media watchdog group that says it is "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media".[3] Set up as a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization, MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and author David Brock.[4] Eric E. Burns served as MMfA's president until 2011.[5]
Media Matters for America Analysis of syndicated editorial columns On September 12, 2007, Media Matters released its study of 1,377 U.S. newspapers and the 201 syndicated political columnists the papers carry on a regular basis. Media Matters said "in paper after paper, state after state, and region after region, conservative syndicated columnists get more space than their progressive counterparts."[14] John Diaz, editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, said by over-factoring conservative columns in smaller newspapers, Media Matters' study had overestimated how many conservative columns appeared in daily newspapers. Diaz also said Media Matters had obscured the nuanced ideological positions of some columnists classified in the study as conservative.[15] Misinformer of the Year An annual feature on the Media Matters website is the title of "Misinformer of the Year", which is awarded to the journalist, commentator, and/or network that, in the opinion of Media Matters, was responsible for the most numerous and/or grievous factual errors and claims made.[16] They have been awarded almost every year since Media Matters started in 2004. The recipients of this award have included: Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly (2004) MSNBC's Chris Matthews (2005) American Broadcasting Company (2006) Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity (2008) Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck (2009) Fox News Channel's Sarah Palin (2010) Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation (2011) Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh (2012)
Radio show
Media Matters Radio, an hour-long radio show, is aired on Sirius XM Left and hosted by Ari Rabin-Havt and Bradley Herring.
Offshoot websites
In 2009 Media Matters Action Network launched the Conservative Transparency website, aimed at tracking the funding of conservative activist organizations.[31] Media Matters Action Network established the Political Correction project with the goal of holding conservative politicians and advocacy groups accountable.[32] In December 2010 Media Matters Action Network started EqualityMatters.org, a site "in support of gay equality". At launch the site fully incorporated Media Matters's content on LGBT issues.[33] Designed to provide talking points for liberal activists and politicians, David Brock set up the Message Matters project.[27] Media Matters runs the website DropFox.com and works to get advertisers to boycott the Fox News Channel. One target, Orbitz, initially referred to Media Matters' efforts as a "smear campaign", then on June 9, 2011 agreed to "review the policies and process used to evaluate where advertising is placed".[34][35]
Media Matters for America Schlessinger held Media Matters responsible for the boycott, which she called a typical tactic of the group to fulfill its "sole purpose of silencing people". She also said the boycotts' "threat of attack on my advertisers and stations" had violated her First Amendment free speech rights.[57][58][59] Media Matters said that since the boycott was not "government-sanctioned censorship", her First Amendment rights were untouched.[60]
"War on Fox"
In 2010 MMfA declared a "War on Fox". Brock said MMfA would focus its efforts on Fox and select conservative websites in what Brock called an "all-out campaign of 'guerrilla warfare and sabotage'" against Fox News.[61] MMfA said the greater attention given to Fox was part of a campaign to educate the public about distortions of conservative, and the greater attention given to Fox was in line with its prominence in conservative media. MMfA said its Drop Fox campaign for advertisers to boycott Fox was also part of its educational mission. MMfA also said that changing Fox's behavior, not shutting it down, was its goal.[62]
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