ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP:
SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?
Part 6:
PROGRESSIVE
The editor of PROGRESSIVE magazine, Matthew Rothschild, also
attempted to smear and marginalize 9/11 conspiracy journalists
and researchers a few months ago. Coincidentally, the Madison,
Wisconsin-based PROGRESSIVE enterprise has also been receiving
a lot of money from the foundations of a politically unprogressive
U.S. Establishment since the 1990s.
In 1992, for instance, a $50,000 grant was given to PROGRESSIVE
by the MacArthur Foundation (on whose board ABC News radio commentator
Paul Harvey and Enron Global Power & Pipelines director Thomas
Theobald have sat for many years) "to solicit and disseminate
opinion pieces relevant to U.S. foreign policy and international
security." That same year, "several MacArthur staff members" were
"called to consult with staff members of Bill Clinton's presidential
campaign," according to THE CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY. And, during
the late 1990s, one of the top Clinton Administration economic
policymakers, Laura Tyson, became a member of the MacArthur Foundation
board of directors.
An additional $150,000 grant was also given to PROGRESSIVE by
the MacArthur Foundation in 1994. And in 2002, the MacArthur Foundation
gave $120,000 more in grant money to the PROGRESSIVE enterprise,
whose magazine anti-conspiracy theorist Matthew Rothschild edits.
Like FAIR/COUNTERSPIN and PACIFICA/DEMOCRACY NOW, the PROGRESSIVE
enterprise has also been receiving a lot of money from the Ford
Foundation since the 1990s. In 1998, for instance, PROGRESSIVE
was given a $200,000 grant by the Ford Foundation (on whose board
of trustees sat Clinton crony Vernon Jordan). And in 2000, two
more grants, totalling $250,000, were given to PROGRESSIVE by
the Ford Foundation.
Besides receiving grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the
Ford Foundation, PROGRESSIVE has also obtained funds from The
Rockefeller Foundation in recent years. In 1998, for instance,
a $50,000 grant was given to PROGRESSIVE by The Rockefeller Foundation.
In 2000, PROGRESSIVE Inc. took in an annual income of $1.7 million,
including $69,727 from its sale of advertising space. And its
editor, Matthew Rothschild, has apparently been paid an annual
salary of $44,468 in recent years--for putting out a Democratic
Party-oriented magazine that rarely mentions the Ford Foundation's
historic relation to the CIA and rarely publishes articles written
by 9/11 conspiracy journalists or researchers.
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