MEDIA CAUGHT CENSORING TRUMP ALLY ROGER STONE

In
a briefing book that David Brock, the father of “Fake News,” never
intended to make public, the strategy Media Matters designed to keep
conservative and libertarian websites, including Infowars.com, from
getting press credentials in Washington, D.C. is exposed.

The
briefing book entitled “Media Matters, The Top Watchdog Against Fake
News and Propaganda: Transforming the Media Landscape”, gave Brock a
platform to brag about his ability to keep from getting press
credentials any news media organization “accountable for even the
slightest normalization of Trump.”

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Do you wonder why Roger Stone, the author of several bestselling books, including the current Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution, has been blocked from TV appearances, even at Fox News?
The
reason could well be that David Brock, the father of “Fake News,”
targeted Roger Stone to block his media appearances in a censorship
campaign organized and executed by his mother-ship company Media Matters
and its paid troll minions.
In a briefing book that Brock, the
father of “Fake News,” never intended to make public, Brock explains how
he used Media Matters to implement in conjunction with co-conspiracy
with Google and Facebook a strategy designed to keep conservative and
libertarian websites, including Infowars.com, from getting press
credentials in Washington, D.C.
In a special section of the
briefing book highlighted with a blue background, white type and a
yellow type bold headline, Brock explains how he “pushed Roger Stone’s
bigotry” off cable news.

“Media Matters succeeded in pressuring CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News
to stop booking Roger Stone, a regular guest and longtime Trump ally,”
Brock wrote. “Stone has a decades-long history of employing political
dirty tricks and regularly spouting violent, racist, and sexist
rhetoric, and used his various platforms during the 2016 campaign to
advance fringe conspiracy theories and promote fake news.”
Brock’s attack on Roger Stone continued.

“In late 2015 and early 2016, we aggressively educated network
producers (who had been providing Stone an uncritical platform) about
Stone’s background,” Brock added. “In response to our pressure, CNN and
MSNBC confirmed that Stone will no longer appear on their airwaves
because of his bigotry, and Stone himself reported that he had been
blacklisted by Fox News.”
The briefing book
entitled “Media Matters, The Top Watchdog Against Fake News and
Propaganda: Transforming the Media Landscape” (published by Brock
confidentially for potential donors but obtained and published by the Free Beacon),
gave Brock a platform to brag about his ability to keep from getting
press credentials any news media organization “accountable for even the
slightest normalization of Trump.”
“When Breitbart applied for
Permanent Senate Gallery Press Credentials, Media Matters was quick to
act by advising the credentialing committee of the myriad ways that
Breitbart violated their requirements,” Brock boasts. “Additionally,
Media Matters did something that the committee was unable to do: A deep
dive study of Breitbart content, reviewing thousands of their stories to
demonstrate that they do not meet the credentialing requirement for
original reporting.”
Throughout the document, Brock repeatedly
explains the role he expects co-conspirators Google and Facebook to play
when he targets conservative and/or libertarian media analysts and news
organization he opposes ideologically, imploring Google and Facebook to
silence “toxic alt-right” social support for reporting generated by a
media group Brock has targeted for extinction, like Breitbart as noted
above.
Brock’s hatred of Breitbart’s former chief executive is
apparent when Brock writes in the confidential briefing book that
Breitbart “has received millions in funding from extremist billionaires
close to the Trump administration” providing “a nexus point for the
so-called alt-right (the newest branding for American white nationalism,
anti-Semitism, and misogyny)” to develop, print and/or broadcast
stories Brock finds ideologically repugnant.
“With a powerful ally
in thee White House (former chief executive Steve Bannon will be
Trump’s chief strategist), Breitbart plans to export its brand of
anti-establishment racism on a grand scale,” Brock continues.
In
another special section of the briefing book blocked off with a blue
background and white type, Brock crows about stopping Donald Trump
during the campaign from phoning in interviews to news organizations.
“Media
Matters was the first to call out national cable broadcast networks for
allowing Trump to phone in their shows instead of forcing him to appear
via satellite or in studio,” Brock bragged. “Because of this
unprecedented privilege, Trump could appear on more shows (he conducted
69 phone interviews in the first 69 days of 2016 alone), and he could
avoid being confronted by images and interviewers showing his lies for
what they are.”
Brock insists the intervention of Media Matters
was responsible for Trump losing this privilege with mainstream media
entities he named.
“As a result of our campaign urging major
networks to correct course, CBS News and NBC news publicly stated they’d
discontinue Trump’s phone privileges,” he explained. “Eventually
others followed suit and Trump’s ability to control the news cycle from
the comfort of his home was greatly reduced.”
After bragging about
stifling Trump’s ability to give telephone interviews to television
news groups like CBS and NBC news, Brock marked the section “Private
& Confidential.”
Brock makes clear in the briefing book that
Media Matters techniques include bullying news organizations into
black-balling conservative and libertarian talk-show hosts Brock opposes
ideologically.
In introducing Angelo Carusone, the president of
Media Matters, Brock boasts that in 2009, Carusone as a law student
founded the “Stop Beck” movement that “organized participants via social
media to successfully convince sponsors to cease advertising on [Glenn]
Beck’s show.”
Brock ends his briefing book with a boldly stated threat.
“Toxic
alt-right social media-fueled harassment campaigns that silence dissent
and poison our national discourse will be punished and halted,” he
proclaimed. “Hundreds of activists will join our campaigns to push back
on alt-right harassment.”
“Key alt-right figures will lose credibility and influence in response to our research and pressure.”