A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from April 26, 2012
Media Mutters (Media Matters nickname)

Media Matters for America is a progressive media organization that monitors the conservative media, such as Fox News and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. Media Matters was organized in 2004 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
 
The Media Matters nickname of “Media Mutters” has been cited in print since at least November 2005.
 
Other Media Matters nicknames include “Media Doesn’t Matter” (cited in print since April 2006), “Tedium Tatters” (since November 2009) and “Criminal Front Group Media Matters” (since December 2009).
           
 
Wikipedia: Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a politically progressive media watchdog group which says it is “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” Set up as a tax exempt, non-profit organization, MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and author David Brock. Eric E. Burns served as MMfA’s president until 2011.
     
Democratic Underground
TahitiNut
Wed Nov-16-05 02:55 PM
25. I think it’s on “Media Mutters”
 
FireDogLake
Going Well, Eh?
By: Christy Hardin Smith Wednesday June 14, 2006 11:14 am
(...)
COMMENTS
June 15th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
(...)
Bargaining. “This latest news doesn’t prove or disprove the basic question of whether Fitzgerald was ready to indict Rove,” claims Duncan “Atrios” Black. “It’s quite likely Rove has cut a deal of some sort. It’s quite possible that Fitz’s letter to Luskin, which hasn’t been made public as far as I can tell, says something along the lines of ‘as long as you cooperate as promised your ass is safe for now.’ ” Black’s employer, Media Mutters, says maybe Rove will lose his security clearance for–well, for what isn’t quite clear.
 
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marv
10-12-2007, 11:12 AM
...I guess we’ll find out the real truth when the Democrats crowd their national convention…
Then again, I guess there’s not much left after Media Mutters and Moron.org…
 
The Right Sphere
Media Mutters Senior Fellow Gets Tweaked By… Politico’s Ben Smith?
Posted by RB in Blog on April 24, 2011 9:52 pm
The professional smear merchants at Media Mutters have been trying desperately to keep the “birther” phenomenon alive in an effort to discredit everyone who opposes Obama. The narrative being that conservatives are racists willing to believe the worst about Obama and that any disagreement or ideological or policy differences aren’t legitimate. It’s classic Alinsky. Nevermind that the policies the right disagrees with are written by a group of a lot of very white people.
   
Marooned in Marin
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Media Mutters Sr. Fellow Tweets About Impending Limbaugh Demise In Philly. Ignores He’s Moving To FM Station
“Senior Fellow” Eric Boehlert of the George Soro$ funded Media Mutters, tweeted with glee a link from Talker’s Magazine that Rush Limbaugh may be “booted off” his talk radio home in Philadelphia (h/t @muddlemuddle via Twitter).

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