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Since its inception, they've received over $50 million dollars in contributions from several sources including wealthy liberal activists such as [[George Soros]]<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Soros_gives_1_million_to_Media_Matters.html "Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters"], Politico.com October 20, 2010</ref> and hedge funds<ref>[http://nymag.com/news/media/david-brock-media-matters-2011-5/index3.html "If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven?"], By Jason Zengerle, ''New York Magazine'', May 22, 2011</ref>.  According to an indepth Daily Caller expose on Media Matters, "The list of Media Matters’ foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left [[Tides Foundation]] ($4,384,702), George Soros’ [[Open Society Institutes]] ($1,075,000), the [[Ford Foundation]] ($966,466), the [[Sandler Foundation]] ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization — and the [[Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy]] ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.

Since its inception, they've received over $50 million dollars in contributions from several sources including wealthy liberal activists such as [[George Soros]]<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Soros_gives_1_million_to_Media_Matters.html "Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters"], Politico.com October 20, 2010</ref> and hedge funds<ref>[http://nymag.com/news/media/david-brock-media-matters-2011-5/index3.html "If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven?"], By Jason Zengerle, ''New York Magazine'', May 22, 2011</ref>.  According to an indepth Daily Caller expose on Media Matters, "The list of Media Matters’ foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left [[Tides Foundation]] ($4,384,702), George Soros’ [[Open Society Institutes]] ($1,075,000), the [[Ford Foundation]] ($966,466), the [[Sandler Foundation]] ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization — and the [[Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy]] ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.

They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization [[MoveOn.org]] ($50,000), the [[Barbra Streisand Foundation]] ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered [[Stride Rite Charitable Foundation]] ($25,000), the [[Lear Family Foundation]] ($55,000) — endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear — and the [[Joyce Foundation]] ($400,000), whose board of directors included [[Barack Obama]] from 1994 to 2002."<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/17/left-wing-foundations-lavish-millions-on-media-matters/#ixzz20hHYL2Bm "Left-wing foundations lavish millions on Media Matters"], The Daily Caller, 2/17/12]</ref>

They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization [[MoveOn.org]] ($50,000), the [[Barbra Streisand Foundation]] ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered [[Stride Rite Charitable Foundation]] ($25,000), the [[Lear Family Foundation]] ($55,000) — endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear — and the [[Joyce Foundation]] ($400,000), whose board of directors included [[Barack Obama]] from 1994 to 2002."<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/17/left-wing-foundations-lavish-millions-on-media-matters/#ixzz20hHYL2Bm "Left-wing foundations lavish millions on Media Matters"], The Daily Caller, 2/17/12</ref>

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