{"id":1387512,"date":"2022-03-18T04:59:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387512"},"modified":"2022-03-18T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T09:15:07","slug":"why-current-and-former-employees-are-trashing-left-wing-propaganda-operative-tara-mcgowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-current-and-former-employees-are-trashing-left-wing-propaganda-operative-tara-mcgowan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Current and Former Employees Are Trashing Left-Wing Propaganda Operative Tara McGowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-current-and-former-employees-are-trashing-left-wing-propaganda-operative-tara-mcgowan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Courier Newsroom is funded by Apple billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, who employs PR firm that represented Harvey Weinstein, Jussie Smollett <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 March 18, 2022 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Courier Newsroom, a billionaire-funded network of Democratic propaganda websites posing as legitimate local publications, is a terrible place to work, according to current and former employees.<\/p>\n<p>Recently posted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\/Reviews\/Courier-Reviews-E3680968.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviews<\/a>\u00a0on Glassdoor portray company founder and longtime Democratic operative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/how-tara-mcgowan-became-the-elizabeth-holmes-of-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tara McGowan<\/a>\u00a0as a &#8220;soap opera villainess&#8221; whose rudderless incompetence and &#8220;constant gaslighting&#8221; are driving employees insane.<\/p>\n<p>One former director who worked at Courier for more than a year wrote that McGowan is &#8220;making progressive politics lame again. She&#8217;s basically Anna Delvey. Everyone else is paying for it while she grifts.&#8221; Another former employee called her the &#8220;Ja Rule of the progressive political world&#8221; and urged prospective employees to &#8220;STAY AWAY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Glassdoor reviews describe a dysfunctional workplace environment that is a direct consequence of McGowan&#8217;s inadequate leadership. &#8220;Company culture is about performative unity and a fervent belief in a \u2018mission&#8217; that at times feels like a means to excuse a culture that inspires horrible burn out,&#8221; a then-associate editor wrote in October 2021.\u00a0&#8220;Courier functions like a melodramatic caricature of a media startup&#8217;s greatest weaknesses held together by staff rotating like Spinal Tap drummers and empty platitudes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several current and former employees complained that McGowan and other political operatives in leadership roles &#8220;have no news background&#8221; and aren&#8217;t interested in doing actual journalism. On the contrary, these employees said &#8220;honest journalism&#8221; was &#8220;actively discouraged&#8221; in favor of &#8220;propaganda&#8221; that is &#8220;only concerned with the agenda of the progressive left&#8221; and the overlapping interests of Courier&#8217;s billionaire backers, including George Soros and Apple widow <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/why-is-laurene-powell-jobs-funding-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurene Powell Jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop lying to yourself and your employees. \u2026 Get your story straight. Are you a journalistic venture or a political one?&#8221; wrote one former employee in the &#8220;Advice to Management&#8221; section of the Glassdoor review on Feb. 7. Another former employee, writing on Feb. 22, complained that McGowan cynically cited &#8220;low-information voters&#8221; as the target audience for the company&#8217;s propaganda campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many of Courier&#8217;s critics have known all along that McGowan, who previously served as digital director of the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA, was only ever interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneGoldmacher\/status\/1453028251379634179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peddling<\/a> left-wing propaganda on behalf of her wealthy benefactors.\u00a0Gabby Deutch, a correspondent for the nonpartisan media watchdog NewsGuard, wrote in a February 2020 <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/02\/06\/is-it-local-journalism-or-just-local-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> that McGowan was &#8220;exploiting the widespread loss of local journalism to create and disseminate something we really don&#8217;t need: hyperlocal partisan propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, reporters from ostensibly serious publications such as the <em>New York Times<\/em> have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nyt-reporter-lavishes-praise-on-fake-news-entrepreneur-tara-mcgowan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lavished<\/a> McGowan with praise for the &#8220;really essential work&#8221; she does, as well as her desire to be &#8220;an offensive player&#8221; in the battle over so-called media disinformation. McGowan&#8217;s latest venture, Good Information Inc., has a similar mission and has received favorable coverage since its formation in 2021. Good Information, which is backed by Soros and other left-wing billionaires, including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hired<\/a> RC Di Mezzo, the former national press secretary for the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project.<\/p>\n<p>Powell Jobs and her investment firm Emerson Collective were not involved in funding Good Information, a spokesperson for the firm told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. The spokesperson worked for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/powell-jobs-weinstein-smollett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunshine Sachs<\/a>, the &#8220;bare-knuckle&#8221; crisis PR firm best known for representing Hollywood rapist and longtime Democratic donor <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/harvey-weinstein-donated-nearly-600000-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvey Weinstein<\/a>, as well as hate-crime hoaxer and Hillary Clinton donor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/hillary-clinton-hate-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jussie Smollett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Courier Newsroom is funded by Apple billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, who employs PR firm that represented Harvey Weinstein, Jussie Smollett  Andrew Stiles \u2022 March 18,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}