Media Matters Terrorists

Media Matters memo called for hiring private investigators ‘to look into the personal lives’ of Fox employees

“ As an aside A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns. In the first few lines, Frisch explained why Media Matters should launch a “Fox Fund” whose mission would be to attack the Fox News Channel. “Simply put,” Frisch wrote, “the progressive movement is in need of an enemy. George W. Bush is gone. We really don’t have John McCain to kick around any more. Filling the lack of leadership on the right, Fox News has emerged as the central enemy and antagonist of the Obama administration, our Congressional majorities and the progressive movement as a whole.”   [Full]   I suppose it's too much to expect this congress to hold hearings on this most unseemly effort by the administration to silence critics through intimidation and terror.  Just the opposite is being proposed as a matter of fact. “ So far more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have called on Congress to launch an investigation into whether Murdoch and his company were engaged in similar illegal activities in the U.S.  You can take action here. On this page we have collected resources about Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. and their impact on U.S. media policy. [Control The News.com] ” ”