Media Matters Declares 'Victory' over Fox News
by John Nolte 13 Dec 2013, 10:47
AM PDT
Like a frustrated child who flips
over a board game and screams, "I win!", the George Soros-funded, tax exempt Media Matters for America
declared victory in its years-long war against Fox News. Although Fox News regularly pulls in more viewers than
both of its left-wing counterparts (CNN and
MSNBC) combined, and recent polls
show that Fox is trusted more than almost every other news source, Media
Matters would like its donors to know it has won:
[I]n the coming years, Fox will no
longer be the center of Media Matters' universe. That's because the group
believes it has effectively discredited the network's desire to be seen as
"fair and balanced."
"The war on Fox is
over," said Media Matters Executive Vice President Angelo Carusone.
"And it's not just that it's over, but it was very successful. To a large
extent, we won."
As recently as last month, a poll
showed that Fox News is the most trusted source of information about the most
important issue in America
today: ObamaCare. Fox News beat "friends and family," NPR, President
Obama, and every rival news network.
As recently as last month, Fox
News absolutely crushed CNN and MSNBC in the ratings. In both total viewers and
the all-important 25-54 age demo, Fox News beat both of them combined.
Moreover, out of over 100 channels, Fox News is #2 in all of cable.
In February of this year, the
left-wing PPP found that Fox News was the second-most trusted name in news
after PBS, with 41% support. As far as mistrust, Fox is upside down by 5
points. MSNBC is upside down by 9, 35%-44%; CNN is upside down by 5, 38%-43%.
When compared directly to its
broadcast competition, 34% percent chose Fox as most trustworthy. Second place
wasn't even close, with PBS at 13%. Fox was also the most mistrusted by 39% of
viewers, but that just means that Media Matters wasn't even able to convince
20% of Obama supporters to mistrust Fox.
Much was made of the fact that
this poll showed erosion in trust for Fox News, but that had to be cold comfort
for Media Matters and the left in general. Left-wing outlets like Politico can
spin that to their hearts' content, but it is just a fact that CNN is vanishing
and MSNBC is sinking while Fox News's dominance appears to be just getting
started.
Changes made recently in the Fox
News primetime line-up, including the addition of Megyn Kelly, have been a huge
boon for a programming block that was already dominant. Meanwhile, CNN has
announced it will move away from news during its primetime hours and MSNBC has
lost half its primetime audience, compared to last year.
Fox News isn't just dominant; it's
competition is in deep, deep water and either drowning or barely treading
water.
If that's a victory for Media
Matters, I'd love to know what defeat looks like.
But don't worry, Media Matters's
donors: that's not a white flag you’re seeing. It's David Brock waving goodbye
to you as his luxury Victory Cruise heads out to sea.
Fox News
Media Matters
monitors Fox News.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters, the International
Rescue Committee, People for the
American Way, the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Harold E. Ford Jr. is an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee, a political commentator for MSNBC, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Up Late
With Alec Baldwin was an MSNBC program.
Alec
Baldwin was the host for Up Late
With Alec Baldwin, and is a director at People for the American Way.
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder for CNN, and
a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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