Subject: [big campaign] PA: Right wing funders are manufacturing news and driving public policy in Pennsylvania
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:10:42 -0400
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Please let me/us know if you like what you see here (and I suspect you do),
if so I'll make sure to update this list as we role these out in more and
more states.

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From: Michael Morrill <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Subject: Fwd: Report: Right wing funders are manufacturing news and driving
public policy in Pennsylvania

*Keystone Progress*

NEWS RELEASE
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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
August 13, 2013*

*Contact: *Michael Morrill, 717-889-9393

*Report: Right wing funders are manufacturing news and driving public
policy in Pennsylvania
**Pennsylvania Independent **is part of a nationwide movement to drive the
news with pseudo-reporting by conservative advocacy organizations posing as
legitimate news operations***

HARRISBURG, PA--A new report exposes a disturbing new movement to supplant
genuine investigative reporting with pseudo-reporting by right-wing
advocacy organizations. These advocacy groups, posing as legitimate news
bureaus, are well funded and have become accepted as objective news
organizations by many mainstream newspapers, television and radio news
operations.

According to the report by Keystone Progress, this insidious infiltration
of legitimate news operations is led by the Franklin Center for Government
and Public Integrity.  Its local affiliate in Pennsylvania is the *Pennsylvania
Independent*.

The report outlines how these advocacy groups are funded and shows how they
have become accepted as objective news organizations by many mainstream
newspapers, television and radio news operations.  In fact, this network of
“news” outlets run by the Franklin Center claims that it already "provides
10 percent of all daily reporting from state capitals nationwide."

*Key Findings*

   - Despite its claims, the *Pennsylvania Independent* is far from being
   independent or unbiased.

* *

   - The *Pennsylvania Independent *is run by the far-right Franklin Center
   for Government and Public Integrity, which has close ties to the American
   Legislative Exchange Council, the Koch brothers, the Tea Party,
   Conservative Political Action Conference, Heritage Foundation and numerous
   other conservative causes and candidates.

* *

*-MORE-*

   - The Franklin Center lists dozens of conservative think tanks, many of
   which are members of the rightwing State Policy Network, as state
   affiliates. The Commonwealth Foundation is one of those conservative think
   tanks.
   - The *Independent *is staffed by conservative ideologues who have been
   active in conservative causes.
   - Ninety-five percent of the Franklin Center’s known funding comes from
   the Donors Capital Fund and the related Donors Trust, “the dark-money ATM
   of the conservative movement” that receives significant funding from the
   Koch brothers.
   - Mainstream legitimate news operations are ignoring the clear
   conservative advocacy intentions of the *Pennsylvania Independent* and
   are republishing its “reporting” as legitimate, unbiased news.

The full report is available online at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/159802911/Driving-the-News<http://link.email.dynect.net/link.php?H=tiMleQXvuhG3cVWUKKJFwgesMDniOk1Pw7PVcwjuUQTxS9%2BL2leHbl%2BodR2mj9y0zYNW2bnidwhR7ZpnmmxG4bWUHFKIhNJRd7AcyRsDrlg%3D&G=26&R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F159802911%2FDriving-the-News&I=%3C20130813155439.017E810B4ED5%40mail6-08-ewr%3E&X=MHw1NjA0NzozMTViY2Y5YmFkZDVlZjhhODNiMjE5NzI1YWU5MzEwMGQ0ZDEyNDNkOzF8NTYwNDg6MTEyMDMzOw%3D%3D>(also
attached)

The report was produced by Keystone Progress.  Keystone Progress is
Pennsylvania’s largest progressive advocacy organization with over 350,000
subscribers. Keystone Progress embraces a pragmatic and flexible approach
to advancing equal opportunity for all, the protection of individual
freedoms, and democratic, transparent and people-oriented (rather than
corporate) government.

*-END-*
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*Keystone Progress is Pennsylvania’s largest online progressive
organization, with over 350,000 subscribers. KP uses the Internet and new
media to organize online at the state and local level; and utilizes
cutting-edge earned media strategies to promote a progressive agenda and
counter right-wing misinformation. *

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