Rusty on "Media Matters Survey Matters Not At All"

Rusty Turner, Editor, The Morning News (Northwest Arkansas), shared his comment on a recent survey by Media Matters, a left-wing liberal , news source working for the election of Hillary Clinton and others. He even takes a small poke at Accuracy In Media, a conservative watchdog of the liberal press. The following quotes by Rusty should wet your appetite in hopes you will drop read his total thoughts on the Media Matters and their surveys:

I got quite a chuckle out of a recent press release from an outfit called Media Matters which said that conservative opinion dominates American newspaper editorial pages. . . . Those of us in the newspaper business greeted the news with a shrug of the shoulders and an eye roll, because we all know what Media Matters is. It calls itself a progressive web-based organization dedicated to correcting the inaccuracies promoted by the “conservative” media. In other words, it is a liberal mouthpiece. And if its self-description sounds familiar, it is. . . .

I laughed the hardest, though, when I got to part of the Media Matters report dedicated to Arkansas daily newspapers. The report scores each newspaper’s op-ed content on how progressive or conservative it is. The Morning News’ score? One-hundred percent conservative. That sound you hear is local Republicans gasping and area Democrats saying “Huh?” Here’s how Media Matters came to that score, and here’s why its survey and report are worthless: . . . [Read More]

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