Alcindor and Woodruff also refrained from mentioning that the Alliance for Securing Democracy is funded by the German Marshall Fund, a Cold War government think tank that has provided funding to the NewsHour in the past.Įxperts interviewed on the news program are frequently affiliated with think tanks and advocacy groups that receive funding from the same non-profit organizations that fund the NewsHour. Rosenberg was interviewed by PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor about the alleged dangers posed by Russian meddling in U.S. This cozy relationship often makes it difficult to distinguish the difference between propaganda and news.Įarlier this year, for example, the NewsHour failed to inform viewers that Laura Rosenberger, the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, was formerly a national security advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In the past, another prominent funder of the program was Leidos, a private intelligence-gathering corporation that receives billions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon and various U.S. Woodruff herself is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an influential private group that sets American foreign policy objectives and has close ties to the U.S. In short, NewsHour funders represent the most entrenched wealth and power in America, a plutocracy that holds the purse strings of philanthropic lucre capable of buying the loyalty of jingoistic journalists. Other sources of NewsHour funding come from corporate sponsors such as BNSF Railroad and Johnson & Johnson. New money is represented by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Those names include Ford, Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller. The bulk of the funding comes from a myriad of individuals and foundations some of whose names harken back to the industrial tycoons and robber barons of the 19th and 20th Centuries. But that’s a fraction of the news operation’s budget. In 2017, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees this byzantine network, gave NewsHour Productions $4.4 million.
Woodruff works for a subsidiary of WETA - NewsHour Productions LLC, a corporation registered in Virginia. Her compensation package is tucked away in the 2018 non-profit tax return of the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association of Arlington, Va., which is the corporation that runs WETA-TV, the PBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. Woodruff received a salary of more than $500,000 in 2017, and scored another $27,000 in other benefits. She received $80,000 for being a consultant.īeing a public television news anchor is even more lucrative. Kem Sawyer, his wife, is also on the Pulitzer Center’s payroll.
For journalists such as Woodruff and Sawyer, turning a blind eye to these influences is a matter of self interest.Īccording to the Pulitzer Center’s 2018 tax return, Sawyer’s annual salary is $214,000, along with $39,000 in additional benefits and expenses.
government national security interests, corporate cash and funding from non-government organizations. That’s because both journalism icons are compromised by their ties to U.S. Unfortunately, there is reason to question that characterization.
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They are being touted for their roles as defenders of the free press. Louis Post-Dispatch foreign correspondent Jon Sawyer of the non-profit Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting are slotted to appear at the Gateway Journalism Review online fundraiser. Next month, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff and former St. In the New Cold War, one of the casualties is independent journalism.
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