Media Matters Backs RNC, Calls On CNN And NBC To Pull Clinton Productions

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Media Matters Backs RNC, Calls On CNN And NBC To Pull Clinton Productions

The founder of Media Matters for America, a liberal non-profit that works to monitor and correct conservative misinformation in the media, on Tuesday echoed the Republican National Committe in calling on NBC and CNN to cancel their scheduled programming on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In letters to the chairman of NBC Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt, and CNN President Jeff Zucker, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus slammed the networks' "thinly-veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election" as unfair to other potential candidates from both parties, threatening to pull the networks' partnerships for the 2016 presidential primary debates.

"Given that this project could coincide with a potential Clinton presidential campaign, the timing raises too many questions about fairness and conflicts of interest ahead of the 2016 election," Media Matters founder David Brock wrote in a letters to top network executives.

Read the letters in full here.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/media-matters-founder-sides-with-rnc-calls-on

[el_bryanto]

1. Well given their specific remit, I can see where they are coming from.

Obviously we are offended when Fox does similar hi-jinks for Republican candidates. I suppose they feel like they have to be consistent.

Bryant

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Among other things, the assumption that this is being done 'for' the candidate

could be very incorrect. The best political bio pix are unkind to at least one major figure, the TV films done in the past about others and about Clinton have been negative as all get out. So such film is usually something done 'to' a candidate.
So as a basic rule, I am not a fan of making scripted biographical films about any candidate by any one during an election. Too easy to muck up the truth, too easy to editorialize from a foxhole dug out of 'realism and fact based drama' and thus to say plenty without being held accountable to any of it.

[global1]

3. Let The Cave Begin.......nt

[yourout]

4. That should get a Scooby Doo moment from the Republicans.

[jessie04]

5. Wow....I'm surprised to read this.

nt

[Cha]

6. Oh yeah, cnn is really pro Hillary.

Or did they all of sudden change from the teabagger station?