The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz (6/21/10) write aboutthe investigative journalism produced by the Center for Public Integrity, and wonders about its independence:
The center has also received grants–including $300,000 last year–from the Open Society Institute founded by liberal philanthropist George Soros, sparking questions about whether its news agenda leans to the left. "We have a very clear firewall editorially," Buzenberg says. "We decide what we want to do and how we want to do it." Donors, he says, "may hate it and they may never fund us again, that's their right. . . . It isn't free to produce. We've got to get money."
OK, I guess that's a concern on some level.
Butif I were to ask Kurtz if the Washington Post's reliance on major corporate advertisers to continue publishing is "sparking" any questions about the paper's"news agenda," I think he'dwonder if I was a space alien.
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[...] Raising Conflict Questions Some of the Time [...]
That's the corporate Status Quo Lie. A media criminal like Kurtz fraudulently claims that the media's corporatist ideology is actually the natural, normal, moderate, non-political, non-ideological baseline, when it is actually radical, extreme, aggressively (anti-)political, and intensely ideological.
Meanwhile any pro-democracy public interest advocacy, which calls for the restoration of a more natural, moderate civic life, is slandered as extreme and ideological.