Travel Giant Orbitz Stands Up to Soros “Smear Campaign”

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Big Journalism:

Media Matters is gearing up to target a half-dozen of the Fox News Channel’s advertisers — Netflix possibly being one of them — though Orbitz Worldwide on Thursday stuck up for the nation’s top cable news outlet.

Orbitz, which is the first target of a campaign launched at DropFox.com — a new website from the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters — on Thursday also accused Media Matters of a “smear campaign.”

DropFox’s goal is to pressure advertisers into either pulling their ads from Fox News or forcing Fox to alter its usually conservative messages. DropFox focused on Orbitz first because among its assets is a travel website dedicated to gays and lesbians, a community Fox News is antagonistic toward, according to DropFox.

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In Orbitz, though, DropFox may have already bitten off more than it can chew. The company is not only refusing to buckle under the pressure — which includes an online petition signed by 40,000 people asking it to ditch Fox News — but it is striking back at Media Matters, warning the organization it is risking its credibility by attacking Orbitz.

“This is a political organization that has been funded pretty extensively to go after one network, and we aren’t going to engage in that fight,” Orbitz spokesman Brian Hoyt said.

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DropFox Hits The Ground … and Stays There

 

 

On May 16th the Soros-funded Media Matters’ newest venture, DropFox.com, set out to replicate what Media Matters thinks was a successful campaign against Glenn Beck. You see, after finally admitting they’ve been at war with Fox News since their inception, they are seeking to take credit for all of the internal decisions made at Fox News. There’s an apparent institutional amnesia afflicting the executives at the media “watchdog” and their recent failure to get Fox’s Bill Sammons fired has clearly gone down the memory hole. The failure of their alleged “former Fox insider” story hasn’t seemed to prevented them from banging their collective heads against that impenetrable wall called “ratings.”

 

So while the Senior Fellows and Junior Fellows / interns continue to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day and poorly transcribe the shows and edit clips to manufacture evidence of “misinformation” – if they even bother to do that – Angelo Carusone (@Drop_Fox) gets to waste rich progressives’ money on the other angle: targeting companies who advertise on Fox News – with smears (Via Mediaite.)

 

The effort by liberal media watchdog group Media Matters to convince half a dozen leading national advertisers to pull their dollars from the Fox News Channel got a high-profile snub Thursday when Orbitz, the travel company, not only declined to participate, but fired back at Media Matters, calling the “Drop Fox” campaign a “smear effort.”

 

http://bigjournalism.com/rb/2011/05/21/dropfox-hits-the-ground-and-stays-there/