The address cited a September 2009 announcement from Media Matters contributor Karl Frisch to Media Matters administration David Brock and Eric Burns.
It's cryptic to what admeasurement the organization, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit group, followed through on the abundant suggestions, but they would arise to comport with Brock's aboriginal 2011 affirmation that he planned to arraign a "war on Fox."
The approach floated by Frisch were likened to a "presidential-style campaign," one which he hoped would "discredit and abash the network."
He appropriate hiring "trackers" to "stake out" contest with Fox Account employees, sending "anti-Fox Account literature" to employees' homes and even acceptable administrator Michael Moore to accomplish a documentary about the network. Frisch aswell appropriate establishing a "front group" of shareholders to ambition ancestor aggregation Account Corporation.
At atomic one of the account appears to accept appear to accomplishment -- a advancement that Media Matters broadcast an anti-Fox Account book beneath Brock's name. "The Fox Effect," co-written by Brock and the Media Matters organization, is due for absolution next week.
The announcement is the latest adumbration in a Daily Caller alternation about Media Matters' attack adjoin Fox News. The online account aperture aswell appear that if ex-Politico biographer Ben Smith wrote about Media Matters' "war" in 2011, he larboard out assertive locations of a 2010 Media Matters planning memo.
The memo, according to the Daily Caller, aswell appropriate targeting the autonomous Cato Institute and bourgeois Heritage Foundation, as able-bodied as Republican admiral like House GOP Leader Eric Cantor, and websites including Newsmax.
Smith, who now works at the website BuzzFeed, has aback acquaint a lot of of the announcement online, bare a five-page account area that Smith said he never received.
A above Media Matters agent told the Daily Caller that several boilerplate media reporters were accepted to anxiously absorb Media Matters items in their own reporting. Smith, the antecedent said, would "take belief and address what you wish him to write."
Politico frequently best up Media Matters items in its articles, a asperous account of which can be apparent here.
Smith has dedicated his own work, tweeting that he's both "used ... & alone tips from MM, just as from conservatives."
Politico continues to address about Fox News, as afresh as Tuesday alms a top adventure on its web website about what it accounted a advance alteration larboard in Fox News' political reporting. The outlet's media blogger, Dylan Byers, who acclimated to plan for Smith, aswell wrote two rebuttals to the DC adventure on Monday suggesting that the section and DC architect Tucker Carlson, a arch biographer in the Media Matter series, did not aback up the criticism of Politico with examples and was not accurately advertisement the story.
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