Posted on 08/09/2009 6:43:57 PM PDT by Bratch
JERUSALEM – The Associated Press is delivering to its subscribing 1,500 American newspapers content, it has emerged, penned by groups with financing from philanthropist George Soros and another far-leftist billionaire who not only campaigned for President Obama but also topped donor lists to groups like ACORN and MoveOn.org.
The AP announced last month it will allow its subscribers to publish free of charge work by four nonprofit groups, the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica.
Controversial Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a friend of President Obama who was embroiled in a recent national race scandal, sits on the board of ProPublica. The group defines itself as "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."
ProPublica was founded with a $10 million yearly grant from Herbert and Marion Sandler, the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, which was one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders and savings and loans. The Sandlers last year sold their business to the Wachovia Corporation for about $26 billion, a deal which valued their personal shares at about $2.4 billion.
The Sandlers are major donors to the Democratic Party and are top funders of ACORN, MoveOne.org, the American Civil Liberties Union and other far-leftist groups like Human Rights Watch.
In 2008, the Sandlers were behind two controversial California Political Action Committees, Vote Hope and PowerPac.org, which spent about $5 million in pro-Obama ads in that state. The two groups were run by the Sandler's son-in-law, Steve Phillips, the former president of the San Francisco School Board.
The journalistic integrity of the Sandler-backed ProPublica, however, has been repeatedly called into question.
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Soros is the true snake.
Cut off the head and the body will die.
When we get power back, start a RICO investigation of this menace.
Will the AP distribute content from Heritage? This is dangerous.
Then it becomes tainted and biased, therefore, not journalism.....oh wait, the AP is already tainted and biased, so yeah, nothing to see here, move along.
So the AP is nothing less than the propaganda arm of the socialist Democrat party.
Interesting.
WTH?
I’ll be back with DTNs.
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Bump.
Not surprised, just amused that the AP decided to save costs by giving their fellow travelers direct access to the AP consumer base, I guess the AP orgaizations’ senior managements have been cutting back their softball political journalists headcount to reduce costs.
Why not? They practically write the columns anyway.
Even when they don’t, you get a quick call on the ‘correction’ or ‘amendment’ that’s demanded ASAP.
Good information, but this came from the 13th of June. See the following: http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_061309a.html
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