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From: Brumar892/15/2011 11:33:38 AM
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This is the kind of "journalism" Mediamatters practices - working with Planned Parenthood behind the scenes to help craft their coverup when five of their clinics were caught on tape willingly offering to help someone they believed to be a pimp running a string of underage prostitutes:

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JOURNOLIST 2.0: Soros Sites Hold Con Call To Map Strategy for Planned Parenthood Defense

It was reported that Alternet, Soros’ Media Matters, and other progressives staged a conference call this afternoon where they mapped strategy to defend Planned Parenthood from the choices Planned Parenthood staffers made on tape.

... Instead of focusing on the fact that there is an organization who turned a blind eye to child sex-trafficking, an organization that receives forced federal funding, the group of senior fellows ostensibly chose the route which affords zero defense of women, born or unborn, thereby saving them from compromising their female-hostile ideologies: attack Lila Rose. These outlets don’t see the insanity in feigning disgust that the racket was exposed, not that it occurred at all.

The majority of the call was spent discussing ways to discredit Rose because of her funding.
They surmise that some group which donates to her pro-life magazine is a group donated to by a group given money by the Koch Brothers. So says people who just cashed a $1 million-dollar check from George Soros.

The opening of the Alternet post on the confab notes a couple of other interested parties who were in attendance:

On a conference call with bloggers convened by Media Matters for America with Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Vice President Stewart Schear, I got a little tip into where Lila Rose, who leads the right-wing sting group Live Action, gets some of her funding.
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Well, isn't that cozy? The organization under fire gets to meet with people who somehow believe that they are still "journalists" to plan its defense. There would seem to be little reason to doubt that those involved will share their plans and information with others at establishment press outlets who also somehow believe that they are still "journalists." This is all being done to defend the reputation and funding of an organization shown over at least the past half-dozen several years as willing to flout the law and basic human decency to maximize the number of abortions it performs.

Paraphrasing a NewsBusters commenter's tagline: This isn't media bias. It's a working relationship.

Read more: newsbusters.org
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