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Friday Morning Crib Sheet: RIP Anthony Shadid, MMfA Donors Revealed

– Classic Ace of Spades on Keith Olbermann. – Rick Santorum turns the tables on the press. This is how you reject a narrative and turn it on its face: [youtube MMVzaIMYuTY nolink] – Media Matters donors revealed: the website that endorsed

Creepy: Google Bypasses Apple Browser's Privacy Settings

Not just Google, but other advertising companies as well: Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers–tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who

Thursday Crib Sheet: MMfA Occupies MSNBC, Rape Defenders

– Media Matters Occupies the MSNBC newsroom: Just in recent weeks, there have been several examples. Two MSNBC hosts who have recently, and regularly, used the organization’s content for their programming are Ed Schultz of “The ED Show” and Al Sharpton

Tuesday Morning Crib Sheet: MMfA Onslaught Continues, Loesch Accepts AIM Award

– Site whose mission is to ‘correct conservative misinformation’ is oddly silent about the Daily Caller piece. – Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch accepts the Accuracy in Media Award: [youtube YXO_B4zZiY8 nolink] – The David Brock Enemies List. Big Hollywood and Big Government make an appearance! – Dylan Byers

Alan Dershowitz: Media Matters Could Cost Obama the Election

Alan Dershowitz lashed out at Max Blumenthal and Media Matters at a recent appearance, angrily remarking that they will cost Obama the election: Much more newsworthy than the silly spitballs Blumenthal threw with his screaming article was Dershowitz’s conviction that

Monday Morning Crib Sheet: The Media Matters Bomb, ESPN and Sexism

– The Daily Caller drops a bomb on Media Matters for America. We learn MMfA head David Brock is a self-infatuated, paranoid hypocrite who has more bodyguards than fans (and apparently encourages an assistant to break gun laws), and what we

Dog Whistle Progressives Fabricate Racial Incident at CPAC

Earlier today Comedian Steven Crowder and Chris Loesch, a production artist, performed a satirical (by design) number called “Mr. America” at CPAC as a last-minute request to mark the launch of the same name video. The video (and the performance) features

Nobody Expects The Progressive Inquisition!

During the rise of the tea party Anderson Cooper called conservatives “tea baggers” on CNN and remarked about “teabagging.” The network featured a multitude of guests and contributors who likened tea partiers to nazis, bigots, pick your poison. No pressure was ever brought about

Obama Justice: FBI Intensifies Murdoch Investigation

Reuters: U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources

MMFA Prop Watch: The Week of February 3rd, 2012

Unless you missed it this week: Media Matters still refuses to condemn the violence in the Media Matters-endorsed OWS movement. Media Matters also refuses to answer why a “media site” is seemingly in violation of the rules binding 501 c(3)s

Media Matters Continues Blacklist Efforts, Lies About Loesch's Remark

Media Matters continues to deflect from accusations of antisemitism and extreme bias by trumping up nontroversies on other conservatives. In addition to watching Fox, scouring Andrew Breitbart’s Twitter feed, and recording Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch’s shows, Media Matters for

New York Times Posts $40 Million Loss in 2011

Trying. Not. To Smile. Failing. AMY CHOZICK in the New York Times: The New York Times Company reported on Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit declined 12.2 percent as rising subscription and digital advertising revenue at its largest newspapers could not

Thursday Morning Crib Sheet: Obama's Media Control, CNN Overtakes MSNBC

– Branded Twitter pages are here! But only, apparently, if you’re a progressive news outlet. Seriously, Al Jazeera? What’s next, RT/ Russia Today / Komrade Kommuniqué? Rhetorical question. – Real headline: Barack Obama controls media more than presidential predecessors. President

Wednesday Crib Sheet: MSNBC's Rules

– How Pininterest uses content without violating copyright laws. – On crackers. MSNBC set the rules when it declared “food stamps” as a Racist Codeword . Going by MSNBC’s rules, “cracker,” even when used on Floridians, is Racist . –

Media Endorsed OWS Movement: "F*** The Police"

The protest endorsed by progressive media. From Huffington Post San Francisco: Have you noticed that MSM started distancing itself from the occupy protests? Media Matters for America — busted last week after it embarrassed itself with an email appealing its

Who's With Whom? Conservative Media Casts Lots In Primary Race

Thursday the Drudge Report had no less than 13 anti-Gingrich links scattered across the page with somewhere around five “above the fold.” The same day, National Review Online, the American Spectator, and pundit Ann Coulter all published missives railing against

Sound Bite For The Day: Maher Makes Romney Polygamy Joke On CNN

From Newsbusters, via Fox Nation: ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: So you are optimistic for this election? You think, no matter who the Republican candidates are, you think Obama is going to win? BILL MAHER: Oh, definitely. My money is still on

Thursday Crib Sheet: Assange, Russia Today, and Irony

– Irony: super transparent, no government secrets Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is getting his own television show … on Kremlin funded and comically controlled RT America, aka Komrade Kommuniqué. It’s the television channel that has given voice to a thousand

C-SPAN Casts March For Life As Simply "Anti-Abortion" Rally

COnsider it your screencap of the day. I caught this on the livestream for C-SPAN. “Anti-abortion” rally? They don’t even bother to caption the event with its name? Compare to C-SPAN coverage of pro-choice rallies. Did C-SPAN call these “pro-abortion?”

Monday Crib Sheet: SC Voters Defeat MSM In A Blowout

– Mitt Romney unhinged: Calls Gingrich a “disgrace,” failure.” Will MSM reprimand Romney for going mean or do they save that line of attack for Gingrich specifically? Instead, MSM keeps insisting that the guy with the blowout victory in SC

Sunday Morning Crib Sheet: Washington Post Ombudsman Admits Bias

– I can’t tell if I’m watching MSNBC. Stuff Liberals Say via Ace: [youtube 0uAuuQnh90s nolink] – WaPo ombudsman: Yes we’re biased and we need to start scrutinizing Obama’s record: Deborah Howell, Post ombudsman from 2005 through 2008, said at

Fortune.Com Fact-Checks Gingrich Film's Anti-Bain Assertions

Charles C. Johnson recently discussed the facts behind the union boss who led to workers at the Ampad plant in Marion, Indiana losing their jobs. He blamed Randy Johnson, the DNC/MSNBC poster boy, for the layoffs, not Bain Capital and

Report: Netanyahu Says Israel's Greatest Enemy is the Mainstream Media

Specifically, the New York Times and Ha’aretz, Israel’s left-wing daily. The Israeli prime minister denies making the remark, which was relayed in a speech by Steve Linde, editor of the Jerusalem Post. Linde has since backtracked, apparently. The Jewish Telegraphic