ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP:
SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?
Part 5:
MOTHER JONES / Foundation for National Progress
Like FAIR/COUNTERSPIN/IPA, MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National
Progress received a lot of money from Public Affairs TV Inc. Executive
Director Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation in the 1990s. In 1995,
for instance, MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress was
given a $500,000 grant by Moyers' Schumann Foundation "to support
MOTHER JONES magazine." A second grant of $150,000 was given to
MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress in 1996 "to support
the hiring of a new senior editor at MOTHER JONES magazine." And
an additional grant of $100,000 was given to MOTHER JONES/Foundation
for National Progress in 1997 "to promote money in politics investigation
by MOTHER JONES magazine." As Rick Edmunds noted in a recent essay
on the internet (entitled "Getting Behind the Media: What are
the subtle tradeoffs of foundation support for journalism?"):
"Though it is often buried in the fine print of the masthead...many
journals of opinion are themselves nonprofit, the better to attract
foundation funding. That is true of MOTHER JONES."
MOTHER JONES magazine claims to be a non-profit "Foundation
for National Progress." Yet MOTHER JONES magazine took in nearly
$6 million in annual revenues in 2000, including $822,358 from
the sale of advertising space and $176,140 from renting out its
subscriber list. From this gross income of $6 million in 2000,
MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progess then paid out the
following salaries to its top alternative media executives:
1. MOTHER JONES magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Cohn was paid
an annual salary of $144,670;
2. MOTHER JONES magazine Publisher and Foundation for National
Progress Board President Jay Haris--a former general manager of
the Washington Post Company's NEWSWEEK magazine's Pacifica operations--was
paid an annual salary of $144,379;
3. MOTHER JONES magazine Director of Sales & Marketing Eric Weiss
was paid an annual salary of $105,004;
4. MOTHER JONES magazine Creative Director Jane Palecek was paid
an annual salary of $88,197;
5. Foundation for National Progress Secretary/Treasurer and
CEO Joan Catherine Braun was paid an annual salary of $85,453;
6. MOTHER JONES magazine Editor Eric Bates was paid an annual
salary of $74,716; and
7. MOTHER JONES magazine Advertising Manager Eileen Ellis was
paid an annual salary of $67,233; and
8. MOTHER JONES Art Director Caroline Joy was paid an annual
salary of $61,187.
MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress also spent $247,000
on fund-raising in 2000; and its board of directors included Anita
Roddick of the Body Shop, Kadima Foundation CHair Chara Schreyer,
HKH Foundation director Harriet Barlow and MOTHER JONES magazine
founder Adam Hochschild. Hochschild also has set up the Adam Hochschild
Charitable Trust/Sequoia Fund, whose stated tax-exempt purpose
is to "promote the charitable literary and educational purposes
of Foundation for National Progress." According to its 2000 report,
the Adam Hochschild Charitable Trust/Sequoia Fund apparently did
this by contributing $2.4 million worth of stock to MOTHER JONES/Foundation
for National Progress. As a result, $1,176,617 worth of Wal Mart
Stores stock (19,082 shares) was apparently owned by MOTHER JONES/Foundation
for National Progress in 2001.
Besides receiving money from Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation
and the Hochschild Charitable Trust/Sequoia Fund of one its own
board members, another interesting connection to the world of
Establishment foundations exists at MOTHER JONES magazine. In
1997, the wife of MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress
board member Adam Hochschild--University of California-Berkeley
Professor of Sociology Arlie Russell Hochschild--was given a $3
million grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation "to establish
a Center for Working Families" at UC-Berkeley, which she now directs.
Among the Establishment folks who presently sit on the board of
trustees of the Sloan Foundation which funds UC-Berkeley Professor
Arlie Russell Hochschild's center is former Secretary of the Air
Force Sheila Widnall--who presently represents MIT on the board
of trustess of the Pentagon's weapons research think-tank: the
Institute for Defense Analyses (www.ida.org). Other members of
the Sloan Foundation board include former chairmen of the General
Motors, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley corporate boards and two
other MIT professors. In 1991, the wife of MOTHER JONES/Foundation
for National Progress board member Hochschild also was apparently
given a grant by the Ford Foundation.
So it's probably not likely that many muckraking articles about
either the Ford Foundation's historic relationship to the CIA,
Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation and Public Affairs TV Inc., the
Sloan Foundation, the Institute for Defense Analyses, MIT or UC-Berkeley--or
on what evidence has been dug up by 9/11 conspiracy journalists
and researchers--will be published much by the MOTHER JONES magazine
alternative media gatekeepers/censors.
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