Remember when Media Matters bid $86k for dinner with Murdoch?

[Newsjock]

Source: New York magazine

... Having the media mogul as a captive audience over lunch certainly seemed like one way to do that. So when the charity auction was brought to Brock’s attention, he told one of his deputies to “go get it”; $86,000 later, Brock had bought the opportunity for himself and five guests to break bread with Murdoch. But Murdoch apparently began to have second thoughts. For months, Media Matters was unable to schedule the lunch. Then in March, Charity buzz passed along demands that Brock and his guests submit to “a full background check” and promise not to record or report on the conversation.

Media Matters balked at these conditions—proposing instead that Brock and Murdoch select a third-party journalist to attend the lunch and report on their interactions. But Murdoch refused. ­Finally, last month, News Corp. informed Charitybuzz that Media Matters’ anti-Fox agenda meant the “very high likelihood that the lunch would be neither friendly nor productive”; the company would donate $86,000 to the Global Poverty Project instead. In other words, while Brock was willing to pay $86,000 for the privilege of having lunch with Murdoch, Murdoch was willing to pay that much in order not to have lunch with Brock.

Read more: http://nymag.com/news/media/david-brock-media-matters-2011-5/

[rfranklin]

1. What a wimp...typical right winger, no cojones...

just an empty sack of shit.

[rurallib]

2. Kick - Rupey can dish it out, but he can't take it

[Angry Dragon]

3. cockroaches always hide................

[progressoid]

4. Gotcha media is too scary for Rupert.

[sufrommich]

5. Then those demands should have been made before

bidding began.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Exactly. Murdoch is a welsher.

Tries to change the terms after the fact.