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An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt » Blog Archive » PBS collaboration with ultra-right foundations: public affairs program National Desk

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December 29th, 2002
Activism

PBS collaboration with ultra-right foundations: public affairs program National Desk

National Desk

Extra!
September/October 1999
Rally ‘Round the Boys - PBS’s National Desk enlists in the “Gender Wars”
By Jennifer L. Pozner

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Underwritten by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the right-wing John M. Olin, Lynde and Harry Bradley, and Sarah Scaife Foundations, the program showcases partisan pundits who offer opinion in the guise of data, undocumented conservative commentary couched as proof of feminism’s failures.

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Financial ties also link the series’ funders to the National Desk “reporters” responsible for framing the debate. Fred Barnes hosts What’s the Story? for Radio America, funded in part by Olin. Laura Ingraham is a leading member of the Independent Women’s Forum, funded in part by Olin and Scaife. When Larry Elder almost lost his radio show due to charges of racism, $500,000 to keep him on the air was raised by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture–a group partially funded by Olin, Bradley and Scaife. [Editor’s note: notice how this same small group of foundation funding sources keeps on popping up again and again? This is one of the main points that the Commonweal Institute has been making - a very narrow group of people have been exercising an extraordinary level of influence on our public policy dialogue. -Thomas]

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Michael Gurian, Christina Hoff Sommers and a gaggle of conservative organizations are trying to use the media to manufacture the “Myth of the Oppressed Boy” into the next trend story=turned=conventional wisdom. [Editor’s note: this is exactly what the Commonweal folks have been talking about: consciously manufactured conventional wisdom. -Thomas]

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