Media Matters

Organization Trends
The Fairness Censorship Doctrine and the Rise of Rush Limbaugh
Free speech is fine, except when it needs to be rationed. That’s the view of liberal advocates of the “Fairness Doctrine” who believe radio stations give too much airtime to…
by Sean Higgins, CRC Staff on February 17, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Playbook Revealed
A confidential “Plan for Action” detailing the strategy behind the Leftist smear artist David Brock’s strategy has leaked to the media. The plan reveals his intent to influence every…
by Jacob Grandstaff on August 21, 2017

Organization Trends
Faith in Statism
(PDF here) On June 26, the Supreme Court by 5 to 4 struck down all state-level bans on same-sex marriage. Since then, a poll found that 19…
by Barbara Joanna Lucas on August 3, 2015

Organization Trends
The Elizabeth Warren Cheering Squad
(PDF here) Summary:  A coalition of Progressive, pro-Democrat nonprofits is trying to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has become a kind of folk hero to leftists, as an…
by Jonathan M. Hanen on May 1, 2015

Organization Trends
Hush Rush: Once again the intolerant Left works to censor independent voices in the media
Organization Trends, April 2015 (PDF here) Summary:  The Left does not tolerate diversity of opinion.  Taking cues from the George Soros-funded slander shop Media Matters for America, its thuggish…
by Barbara Joanna Lucas on April 1, 2015

Organization Trends
Trendsetters of the Left
(PDF) The “little magazines” of the Left lose money and enjoy small readerships, but they help shape nearly everything an American sees on TV, at the movies, or in…
by Barbara Joanna Lucas on January 9, 2015

Foundation Watch
Building a Radical Foundation
(PDF here) Although the Glaser Progress Foundation was made possible by the great wealth its benefactor garnered from a mere decade’s work at Microsoft, it aims to change the…
by Matthew Vadum on March 4, 2014

Organization Trends
Attacking ALEC
See PDF here. Summary:   The American Legislative Exchange Council has long worked to improve government at the state level by limiting it to its proper roles and by preventing…
by Alexander J. Kroll on December 5, 2013

Foundation Watch
George Soros’s Democracy Alliance plans to drown Democrats in an ocean of money this election cycle
I have an op-ed in today’s Washington Times. It begins George Soros’ Democracy Alliance, an invitation-only club for billionaire leftist political donors, has decided to drown Democrats and…
by Matthew Vadum on April 6, 2012

Op-Ed Column
Op-ed: The Tax-Exempt Status of George Soros’s Media Matters Should Be Revoked
C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel for President George H.W. Bush, suggests in a Washington Times column that the (undeserved) tax-exempt status of leftist slander shop Media Matters for America should…
by Matthew Vadum on June 22, 2011