Media Matters: How They Deceive & Why It Matters

Lee Stranahan
3/31/2011

Yesterday, I did a piece showing how Media Matters used deceptive editing techniques on the Fox / Bill Sammon story [Media Matters’ Deceptive Editing on Fox Story]. I’m still waiting to hear back from Sammon before I do part two but I wanted to show you a couple of more videos that I’ve done in the meantime.

The first one shows how Media Matters used the ‘straw man’ fallacy to attempt to discredit the piece published by Lila Rose yesterday on the Mammosham story. As I say in the video, your position on the controversial issue of abortion doesn’t really matter here – Media Matters are contemptible news twisters…

…But – who cares? So Media Matters lies. You know that so why does it matter? That’s what my second video is about. It matter because they have influence on the media narrative today and through the effective use of SEO techniques, they are also writing tomorrow’s ‘history book’. Watch and see what I mean…

Go to Lee Stranahan‘s site to see the two videos he uses in this demonstration.

Update: Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury has this: Math is hard, says…Media Matters.

Earlier today, Media Matters reported that Glenn Beck’s radio show had lost enough stations that he could no longer claim, as he does on his website, that the show is “heard on over 400 stations.” However, it appears they got some of their math wrong…

Read the whole thing.

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