Tag: Joyce
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Deal With The Devil
One the one hand, the MinnPost is running sponsored news again. And yet again, the subject is guns, and the sponsor is the Joyce Foundation, which is (aside from Michael Bloomberg) the biggest funder of anti-gun groups in the United States. Before Bloomberg bought the local rights for “Protect MN” and “Moms Want Action”, they…
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The Media/Non-Profit Racket
In past months, I’ve showed you how not only big-media-alum group-blog MinnPost, but “No Rant, No Slant” Minnesota Public Radio are on the take from the Joyce Foundation – which funds “Protect MN”, the anti-rights group run by Rep. Heather Martens. I speculated that it might be the reason that MPR has been so incurious…
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An Open Letter To MPR News
To: MPR News From: Mitch Berg,Uppity Peasant Re: Re-Joyce And Be Glad MPR, Last week, in a similar open letter to the management at the news-blog MinnPost, I asked how they squared the fact that they were accepting sponsorship for their “news” coverage – let alone sponsorship from non-profit issue advocacy groups and the government…
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Open Letter To The MinnPost Editorial Team
To: Joel Kramer (CEO/Editor), Roger Buoen and Susan Albright (Co-Managing Editors) Don Effenberger (News Editor) From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: They Get What They Pay For Esteemed Editors: I was never much of a reporter. I could always do the “who, what, when, where, why and how” of a story just fine, and earned a living…
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Junk Science, Junk Journalism, Platinum Funding
The MinnPost – a non-profit-run institutional blog established the the intention to get a jump on the next wave of institutional journalism – gets a whole bunch of money from the Joyce Foundation. Joyce also bankrolls Minnesota’s “largest” gun grabber group, “Protect Minnesota”, and Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”, as well as paying academics…