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

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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