Media Matters’ Tax Documents Expose Group Is Targeting Christianity

Another example of the vile hatred, and vicious spew that comes from far left extremists.....A source of TommyTomTomForNews in his quest to continue to spread false, fictitious, hateful smear and lies.  One has to ask,  "How does Media Matters continue to retain its 501(c)(3) or (4)  status"?

 

 

 

Media Matters' Tax Documents Expose Group Is Targeting Christianity

Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:28pm by    Billy Hallowell

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/media-matters-tax-documents-expose-christianity-as-one-of-the-groups-primary-targets/

 

Media Matters for America has made no bones about its stance on social and political issues. While the organization claims that it is continuously "monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media," its targets, at least according to official Internal Revenue Service documents, are specific: businesses, wealthy Americans and right-leaning Christians.

In the group's tax-exempt application, which was requested and acquired by The Daily Caller, progressive non-profit made its intentions clear.

"Media Matters for America (MMA) believes that news reporting and analysis by the American media, with its eye on profit margin and preservation of the status quo, has become biased," reads the application. "It is common for news and commentary by the press to present viewpoints that tend to overly promote corporate interests, the rights of the wealthy, and a conservative, Christian-influenced ideology."

In terms of the more general charge that the media are widely conservative, this contradicts nearly every study conducted on media messaging. Overwhelmingly, outlets, newspapers — practically every form of the press — has been found to have a leftist slant (at least in the eyes of the American public).

"The majority of Americans (60%) also continue to perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative," Gallup reported back in 2011. "The percentage of Americans who say the media are 'just about right' edged up to 36% this year but remains in the range Gallup has found historically."

So, on what information was Media Matters predicating its conservative bias charges? Moreover, the mention of Christianity is also an eyebrow-raiser, mostly because it seems to showcase a concerted effort to counter faith influence in the public sphere.

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