harassment and placing moles within fox news. sort of war without limits against fox. there was a memo that you guys were able to obtain, this is just one of the quotes from it. it says we must take fox news head on in a well-funded presidential style campaign to discredit and embarrassing the network making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers again that seems lylely unusual but another thing is you uncovered a reporter that is now at another news organization apparently had this information more than a year ago. yes, he did. never really revealed the intensity of things tharpe being uncovered by this moment mow. why didn t he report the story? i mean, any journalist ought to jump at that just as a news story regardless of your point of view. you would think. and in the course of our reporting we were told by media matters employees that ben smith at politico were oner their
go-to reporters. someone they would leak things to, someone they felt was a useful pawn for them. we asked ben about this and in the course of that it turned out he obtained a copy of a 90 page memo about a year ago and never printed a vast majority of its contents. that s a betrayal of the core idea of journalism, which is find news that s newsworthy and bring it to your readers. for whatever reason he did not report that information. we think that s one of several examples of mainstream, so-called mainstream reporters doing the bidding of media matters. i want to be fair to all of our viewers to explain that what media matters reports is their business. that s fine. i mean, in a country where we value free speech, they are free to say things even if they are untrue and reckless, all of which they have done. but here s the rub and this is what i think is the heart of the