‘Morning Joe’: NY Times Reports Trump Allies Targeting Journalists Are Following Media Matters Template

EXCERPT:

SCARBOROUGH: "So Jeremy, how is this different from, say, what Media Matters has been doing for quite some time and what NewsBusters have been doing in defense of Donald Trump?"
PETERS: "t’s a good point, Joe. It’s not really all that much different. In fact, the people we spoke to, we interviewed them for this story, kind of uncovering the depth of this here, told us that their template was Media Matters and kind of this exhaustive — basically what’s called opposition research that people do all the time. The difference, though, is that it’s being deployed against very low-level people in a lot of cases. I mean, if you look at what these guys have uncovered here and who it’s hurt, it’s low-level journalists at places like CNN, a photo editor who had nothing to do with CNN's coverage of Donald Trump, for example. That's what's different, because Media Matters and others would often go after big targets at Fox News, the anchors like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. These guys that we have investigated here for our piece here will go after anybody, no matter how low-level or irrelevant to the coverage of American politics."

(h/t Mediate)