"Benefactors and staff

According to the New York Times, Media Matters initially received "more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals" with ties to the Democratic party (including Peter Lewis, Steve Bing, Marcy Carsey, Susie Tompkins Buell, Leo Hindrey, Gail Furman, and James Hormel). Byron York said Media Matters received an unspecified amount of funding from MoveOn.org, and the New Democrat Network.

In 2004 Media Matters received the endorsement of the Democracy Alliance. Though the Alliance does not make direct donations to organizations, its endorsement resulted in direct donations to MMfA from Alliance members. In October 2010 Alliance founding member George Soros announced his first donation to Media Matters, saying "Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters." Soros said concern over "recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence" moved him to donate $1 million to Media Matters, which thanked Soros for announcing his donation "quickly and transparently." Political.com reported that Media Matters' policy was to not "offer a comprehensive list of its donors, and hasn't given any indication that it's going to do so going forward."

Former chief of staff to president Bill Clinton John Podesta provided office space for Media Matters early in its formation at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank that he had created in 2002. Hillary Clinton advised Media Matters in its early stages out of a belief that progressives should follow conservatives in forming think tanks and advocacy groups to support their political goals.

Media Matters hired numerous political professionals who had worked for Democratic politicians and for other progressive groups. In 2004 article on Media Matters the National Review referred to MMfA staffers who had recently worked on the presidential campaigns of John Edwards and Wesley Clark, for Congressman Barney Frank, and for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee."


{all groups highlighted are Democrat activist groups who have no interest in getting truthful news to the American people because they do not disseminate news as FOX does...these groups are trying to destroy people they see as being in their way, hense the enemy...that being FOX New}