ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?
by bob feldman
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 oopinion 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;
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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