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 Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: Keeping tabs on Soros $$$... |
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From the who's funding what department...
| Quote: | Soros funded 'Media Reform' conference
Featured charges U.S. troops targeting journalists in Iraq
Posted: May 23, 2005
1:23 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The just-held National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis – which featured charges that the U.S. military targets journalists in Iraq – was sponsored by a group that received $400,000 from the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute over the last two years.
The organization, the Free Press, is based in Massachusetts and claims to be nonpartisan. But Soros, a convicted insider trader, spent $23 million last year to try to defeat President Bush.
Linda Foley, president of the 35,000-member Newspaper Guild, stirred controversy at the event by alleging, without evidence, that the U.S. military had "targeted" journalists in Iraq and had a "cavalier" approach toward their deaths.
Left-leaning former PBS television host Bill Moyers also spoke to the conference.
A new report by media watchdog Accuracy in Media, or AIM, provides details of Soros' funding and draws attention to how the billionaire's Open Society Institute subsidized a journalist working on a CNN program designed to further his agenda of ending incarceration for dangerous criminals.
AIM says the CNN program, "Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs be Trusted?," which aired several times in January, was written in part by a journalist, Robin Mejia, who had received $45,000 from the Soros-funded OSI. The show was prepared in cooperation with the Center for Investigative Reporting and hosted by Aaron Brown.
The AIM report, written by AIM editor Cliff Kincaid, is available at the group's website.
AIM says the conference represents the latest effort of a "Soros-supported media network" whose political clout was demonstrated just before last year's presidential election when Sinclair Broadcasting was preparing to air "Stolen Honor," a film raising questions about the impact of John Kerry's 1971 anti-war testimony on U.S. POWs being held by the communists.
Kerry had branded U.S. soldiers as war criminals, and POWs interviewed in "Stolen Honor" said this resulted in more torture. The Democratic Party, the Kerry campaign and various groups denounced Sinclair for planning to air the film.
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