Fox News has published a two-part series on George Soros and his influence on the media.
Part one, excerpted below, points out Soros’s ties to over 30 news
outlets, including ABC, where Christine Amanpour sits on a board that
“takes Soros cash:”
When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio,
it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s
federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence
the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who
spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush
in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including
The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.Prominent journalists like ABC’s Christiane Amanpour
and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie
serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the
Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical code stating: “avoid all
conflicts real or perceived.”This information is part of an upcoming report by the Media Research Centers Business & Media Institute which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.
The investigative reporting start-up ProPublica is a prime example. ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation
to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure” – “progressive” being
the code word for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year
contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In
case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is www.soros.org. It is a network of more than 30 international foundations, mostly funded by Soros, who has contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts.[...]
One more thing: a 14-person Journalism Advisory Board,
stacked with CNN’s David Gergen and representatives from top
newspapers, a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the
editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Several are working
journalists, including:• Jill Abramson, a managing editor of The New York Times;
• Kerry Smith, the senior vice president for editorial quality of ABC News;
• Cynthia A. Tucker, the editor of the editorial page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Read the rest here.
In part
two, excerpted below, Fox looks at why George Soros is spending $48 million funding the media:
It’s a scene journalists dream about – a group of coworkers toasting a Pulitzer Prize.
For the team at investigative start-up ProPublica, it was the second
time their fellow professionals recognized their work for journalism’s
top honor.For George Soros and ProPublica’s other liberal backers, it was again
proof that a strategy of funding journalism was a powerful way to
influence the American public.It’s a strategy that Soros has been deploying extensively in media
both in the United States and abroad. Since 2003, Soros has spent more
than $48 million funding media properties, including the infrastructure
of news – journalism schools, investigative journalism and even
industry organizations.And that number is an understatement. It is gleaned from tax forms,
news stories and reporting. But Soros funds foundations that fund other
foundations in turn, like the Tides Foundation, which then make their
own donations. A complete accounting is almost impossible because a
media component is part of so many Soros-funded operations.
This information is part of an upcoming report by the Media Research Centers Business & Media Institute which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.It turns out that Soros’ influence doesn’t just include connections to top mainstream news organizations
such as NBC, ABC, The New York Times and Washington Post. It’s bought
him connections to the underpinnings of the news business. The Columbia
Journalism Review, which bills itself as “a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms,” lists several investigative reporting projects funded by one of Soros foundations.The “News Frontier Database”
includes seven different investigative reporting projects funded by
Soros’ Open Society Institute. Along with ProPublica, there are the
Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting and
New Orleans’ The Lens. The Columbia School of Journalism, which operates CJR, has received at least $600,000 from Soros, as well.Imagine if conservative media punching bags David and Charles Koch
had this many connections to journalists. Even if the Kochs could find
journalists willing to support conservative media (doubtful), they
would be skewered by the left.
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