Circle of Jerks: Media Matters feeds MSNBC feeds Media Matters…

Larry O’Connor at Big Journalism:

We’ve already seen in the past how symbiotic the relationship is between MSNBC (whose ratings are crateringamong adults 25-54) and Media Matters. Witness the now infamous “interview” conducted by suspended MSNBC employee David Shuster and Andrew Breitbart.  His question at the 2:55 mark repeats an attack that appeared on Media Matters the very same day of the interview, January 28.

To make things even cozier, after Breitbart’s segment with Shuster, the not-quite-canned-yet reporter then turned to his next guest, Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at (you guessed it) Media Matters.  Let’s just say the line of questioning was a little friendlier for Boehlert.  Sample question:

What about the standard that is used at websites like  Andrew Breitbart’s, the idea that even today you can go ahead and talk about “alleged crimes” of ACORN employees when there has (sic) been no crimes alleged… what’s that about?

But now, the MSNBC/MMFA ecosystem has come full circle as they now appear to work in mysterious tandem with each other to not just report stories, but to help create stories, report stories, and then cross-promote those stories.

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