{"id":2015106,"date":"2023-08-29T05:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T05:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:11:50","slug":"associated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"AP&#8217;s Court and Climate Coverage Funded by Left-Wing Foundations"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fassociated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations%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=2015106&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<blockquote>\n<h2>Billed as purveyor of &#8216;unbiased news,&#8217; wire service strikes lucrative sponsorship \u2063agreements with progressive charities<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>(Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Associated Press, the country&#8217;s top wire service, \u200cis now bankrolled in \u200bpart by millions of dollars from left-wing\u200c foundations, including one founded by &#8220;1619\u200c Project&#8221; author Nikole Hannah-Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The news \u2062organization last\u200c year announced a series of &#8220;partnerships&#8221; to subsidize reporters covering climate change, race, and democracy. A review of the donor roster shows that the vast majority fund left-wing \u2063political causes, while none are supporters\u2064 of conservative \u2062initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Ida B. Wells Society,\u200b founded by \u200b&#8221;1619 Project&#8221; \u200dlightning\u2063 rod Hannah-Jones, has teamed up with filmmaker Steven \u200dSpielberg&#8217;s Hearthland Foundation, for example, to\u2062 foster &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/press-releases\/2022\/ap-ida-b.-wells-society-maynard-team-up-on-inclusive-storytelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more\u2064 inclusive storytelling<\/a>&#8220;\u200c at\u2063 the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, it was a natural partnership: The AP&#8217;s global \u200dinvestigations editor, Ron Nixon, serves on the Ida B. Wells Society&#8217;s board\u2064 of\u200c directors. In others,\u2063 it may prove more problematic, given that Hannah-Jones&#8217;s\u2064 own reporting has been\u2064 disputed\u200b by historians, who have \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/03\/06\/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a>\u2014among other things\u2014that her account of the motivations of the American revolutionaries is factually inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>The funding, much of it from these sorts of overly political actors,\u2064 will\u2063 make it more challenging \u2063for the Associated Press to swat away accusations of political bias. In one high-profile example,\u2063 critics blasted the organization for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/inclusive-americas-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revising<\/a> its style guide to instruct reporters to\u2062 avoid the use of terms like &#8220;the French,&#8221; which the AP indicated was &#8220;dehumanizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AllSides, a group that tracks media bias across the industry, last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news-source\/associated-press-media-bias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed<\/a> its rating for the AP from &#8220;center&#8221; to &#8220;leans left,&#8221; citing what it said was an increase in &#8220;word choice bias&#8221; \u2064and &#8220;bias by omission of views&#8221; in its coverage. AllSides says it closely\u2063 monitors the Associated \u2063Press&#8217;s content because the\u2063 AP&#8217;s content \u200cis &#8220;broad and far-reaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press is also\u200d taking nonprofit money to fund coverage of race and climate. The organization&#8217;s \u2062&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/press-releases\/2022\/ap-announces-sweeping-democracy-journalism-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">democracy journalism initiative<\/a>,&#8221;\u200d a division whose reporters cover &#8220;the intersection\u200b of race and \u2064voting,&#8221; is bankrolled by\u200c nonprofits \u200dsuch \u2063as the Jonathan\u2062 Logan Family\u200c Foundation. That organization also funds Stacey Abrams&#8217;s New Georgia Project and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-lawmaker-pushes-sex-ed-overhaul-teaching-gender-identity-to-5-year-olds-anal-sex-to-11-year-olds\/\" title=\"New York Lawmaker Pushes Sex Ed Overhaul: Teaching \u2018Gender Identity\u2019 To 5-Year-Olds, \u2018Anal Sex\u2019 To 11-Year-Olds\">left-wing activist group<\/a> Take Back \u2063the Court, \u200cwhich advocates for expanding the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-black-voters-6f840911e360c44fd2e4947cc743baa2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent AP\u200b article<\/a> \u200don the topic asserts \u2062that the Supreme Court in a 2013 landmark\u200c decision \u2062&#8221;tossed out the heart&#8221; of the Voting \u2063Rights Act, when in reality the Court ruled that nine southern states\u2063 would no \u2063longer\u200b have to &#8220;pre-clear&#8221; \u2064election law changes with the federal government. The AP lamented in <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/sumner-county-commission-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another<\/a> \u2062story that &#8220;far-right conservatives&#8221; in Tennessee were\u200d elected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sweeps-in-texas-election-as-city-revolts-against-biden-backed-critical-race-theory-in-schools\/\" title=\"GOP Sweeps In Texas Election As City Revolts Against Biden-Backed Critical Race Theory In Schools\">city council seats<\/a>. A February news\u2064 report <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-us-republican-party-donald-trump-milwaukee-wisconsin-d0e0c0e90c307ed6a5074ad2771b1835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> \u200c that &#8220;GOP election\u200d tactics&#8221; intentionally disenfranchised black voters in\u2062 Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Though\u200d the Associated Press is funded largely by subscriptions from the \u2062thousands \u2062of news \u200corganizations that pay\u200d to license\u2062 its content, its \u2062donors shell out millions to subsidize coverage of some of the country&#8217;s most divisive political issues. It is unclear\u200d when the AP began entering such partnerships, but\u2062 they have \u2062proved lucrative in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Charles \u200dStewart Mott Foundation, for example, provided $500,000 in 2022 to the Associated \u2062Press&#8217;s \u2062&#8221;democracy journalism initiative.&#8221; The foundation recently blasted the Supreme\u200c Court\u200b decision to \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-poised-to-overturn-affirmative-action-precedents-key-activists-forecast\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Poised To Overturn Affirmative Action Precedents, Key Activists Forecast\">overturn affirmative action<\/a>, saying the \u2063decision &#8220;impedes \u200ccolleges and universities from selecting their own student bodies and fully \u2064addressing systemic racial inequalities that persist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation spent $2.5 million on the AP&#8217;s climate and education reporting verticals and sent $400,000 to \u200dits\u200c democracy\u2063 journalism initiative. The foundation also funds Planned Parenthood and organizations such\u200b as Advocates for Youth, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/meet-the-cdc-backed-groups-that-want-to-teach-trans-ideology-to-kindergartners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promotes<\/a> transgender ideology to kindergartners.<\/p>\n<p>The AP takes in millions more from philanthropies\u2014the Hewlett Foundation, Walton Family \u200bFoundation, and others\u2014to fund \u2064reporting on\u2063 climate change, such as stories that this \u2062summer&#8217;s heat wave is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/heat-wave-extremes-climate-change-f652668232cc2ec7400f7e65cfb75cb9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">due to<\/a> global warming,\u2063 that President\u200c Joe Biden&#8217;s Inflation Reduction Act <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-united-states-trending-news-climate-and-environment-385328acb81f3bd07f225b73db748cab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boosted<\/a> America&#8217;s &#8220;climate \u2064credibility,&#8221; and \u2064that\u2064 climate \u2063activists <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-activists-luxury-private-jets-948fdfd4a377a633cedb359d05e3541c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have ramped\u200c up<\/a> protests against the &#8220;emissions-spewing\u200d lifestyles of\u200d the ultrawealthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the country&#8217;s largest private \u2062philanthropies, in 2021 awarded the \u2062Associated Press $750,000 for a climate change \u200binitiative \u200cto increase reporting &#8220;on the increased \u2063and\u2063 urgent need for reliable, renewable \u200belectricity in \u200cunderserved communities worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Outrider Foundation has donated in a\u200b bid to \u2062help the AP beef up its coverage of\u200d climate change and nuclear \u2063weapons. \u200dOutrider has \u2064embraced an apocalyptic view of both issues. In recent years, the foundation \u200blaunched an app that simulates the effects of \u2062a nuclear detonation. One of \u2064its \u2063advisers is Michael\u200b Mann, the climate researcher behind the controversial &#8220;hockey \u200cstick&#8221; graph, which claims global temperatures spiked dramatically around 1900 due\u2063 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-newspaper-rues-expensive-climate-calamities-of-2021\/\" title=\"Vatican Newspaper Rues Expensive Climate \u2018Calamities\u2019 of 2021\">manmade global warming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Welfare Foundation, which gave the Associated \u200dPress a $200,000 grant\u200b this year for investigative reporting on \u2064crime issues, funds organizations\u200c that supported legislation in Washington, \u200cD.C., to\u200b drastically reduce penalties for various crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press \u200bspokeswoman\u200c Nicole Meir told\u2063 the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that the organization maintains &#8220;complete control&#8221;\u200c over content produced \u2063through\u2064 its philanthropic \u200bpartnerships, and\u200c that &#8220;no\u200b funder has any \u2064influence over AP \u200cjournalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press, known for &#8216;unbiased news,&#8217; secures profitable sponsorships with progressive charities. Left-wing foundations, including one by Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; contribute millions of dollars to the top wire service. Despite claiming impartiality, the news organization revealed sponsorship agreements in 2020. 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