UPDATE! Fox News to Air Ad Disclosing $1M GOP Donation -- Once! (TheWrap.com)

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By Dylan Stableford
September 14, 2010

After a few weeks of hemming and hawing, Fox News has agreed to air a 30-second commercial, produced by Media Matters, disclosing to prime-time viewers News Corp.’s $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association.

The spot will air during Tuesday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” according to Media Matters.

Fox had initially refused to run the ad because of objections to language -- specifically, that News Corp. had refused to disclose the donation to Fox viewers.

The edited version (above) states introduces the ad is “about a story that's not yet been covered on Fox News primetime.”

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VIDEO: Media Matters goes on offense against Fox News, Rupert Murdoch

Is Glenn Beck trying to discredit fact-checker websites? (MediaMatters.org)

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By Terry Krepel
Media Matters
June 01, 2010 

On his Monday radio show, after repeating guilt-by-association claims by the Obama-obsessed WorldNetDaily reporter Aaron Klein that President Obama is linked to the Gaza flotilla through Bill Ayers, Glenn Beck and his crew took aim at fact-checking websites such as Snopes.com and FactCheck.org.

Beck asked of Snopes, “Aren’t they originally funded with [George] Soros money?” Nope -- it started in 1996 as a list of urban myths and legends by amateur folklorists David and Barbara Mikkelson and evolved into fact-checking. As The New York Times reported earlier this year, the Mikkelsons still run the website, which is self-supporting through advertising. Further, the idea that the Mikkelsons are driven by liberal ideology has been debunked by FactCheck.org, which noted that Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen, while David Mikkelson is a political independent who was previously a registered Republican and has no public record of having made political donations.

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American Spectator Hitting Readers Up for $26,000 in Donations (Media Matters)

by Joe Strupp

May 03, 2010 

The American Spectator is asking its subscribers to pony up some $26,000 in donations to help it offset increased printing costs.

A letter sent out to some 60,000 e-mail subscribers last week states that the money is needed to "fill the $26,000 shortfall created by the perverse incentives of the liberal agenda. Our paper costs are rising for NEXT MONTH'S ISSUE."

But it does not really explain how liberal policies are increasing paper costs. An American Spectator development director confirmed to Media Matters that the donation request was genuine, but also could not explain the link to liberal policies.

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