Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Media Matters Gets Some Right-Wing Competition

A nonprofit group that bills itself as a right-wing version of Media Matters for America launched Monday with calls for boycotts against companies that advertise on PoliticsNation With Al Sharpton, a show on Comcast-owned MSNBC.

According to THR, the group is called TruthRevolt, and the first advertiser it is targeting is Ritz Crackers, which a petition that was quickly signed by more than 1,000 people Monday morning says is footing "the bill for vile racial demagoguery" with its sponsorship of the Rev. Al Sharpton's show.

The group calls Sharpton "demonstrable proof not just of the unseriousness of the mainstream media, but of their vile race-baiting for ratings."

TruthRevolt is a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and is funded in part by Dr. Robert J. Shillman, a wealthy philanthropist who co-founded technology firm Cognex Corp.

Radio talk show host Ben Shapiro, who is also editor-at-large of Breitbart News and author of the book Primetime Propaganda, created the concept of TruthRevolt and runs it.

TruthRevolt, though, has its eye on other sponsors, shows and media personalities, including George Stephanopoulos of ABC News; David Gregory of NBC News; John King, Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper and Candy Crowley of CNN; and Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC.

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