{"id":39878,"date":"2013-11-19T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39878"},"modified":"2013-11-19T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T15:51:09","slug":"the-medianon-profit-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39878","title":{"rendered":"The Media\/Non-Profit Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"

In past months, I’ve showed you how not only big-media-alum group-blog MinnPost<\/em>, but “No Rant, No Slant” Minnesota Public Radio are on the take<\/a> from the Joyce Foundation – which funds “Protect MN”, the anti-rights group run by Rep. Heather Martens. \u00a0I speculated that it might be the reason that MPR has been so incurious about Martens’ astroturf group<\/a>, and why the\u00a0MinnPost\u00a0<\/em>– with all its pretenses to legitimate journalism – spent the past year giving Martens a public tongue bath<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I asked – does this involvement go any higher in the Twin Cities’ “progressive” political world?<\/p>\n

I asked, and Bill Glahn answered – ten months ago<\/a>. \u00a0Joyce is a\u00a0huge\u00a0<\/em>financial backer of “Take Action MN”, a non-profit that verges on being a political party in its own right, a descendent of “Progressive Minnesota”, which had its own unseemly connections with “non-partisan” institutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glahn:<\/p>\n

The Joyce Foundation<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Chicago,\u00a0Illinois, was founded by\u00a0Iowa\u00a0lumber heiress Beatrice Joyce Kean.\u00a0\u00a0This $760 million foundation has been involved with TakeAction since near the beginning of the\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0non-profit\u2019s existence.\u00a0\u00a0Joyce’s 2006 Annual Report<\/a>\u00a0(p. 25) shows a grant of $350,000 to be paid out to TakeAction over two years, \u201cTo develop and promote a political reform agenda focused on campaign finance, judicial, and voting rights reforms.\u201d
\nJoyce\u2019s 2009 IRS Form 990 reveals that the $350,000 grant to the 501(c)(3) TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund was renewed in 2008 for two additional years, \u201cfor ongoing efforts to reform and strengthen democracy in Minnesota.\u201d[12]<\/a>
\nJoyce\u2019s 2011 IRS Form 990 reveals that, yet again, the $350,000 grant to the TakeAction Education Fund was renewed in 2010 for two additional years, \u201cFor advancing a political reform agenda that encompasses election administration, voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting, and judicial independence.\u201d[13]<\/a><\/p>\n

The Joyce Foundation\u2019s website indicates that\u00a0the TakeAction Education Fund<\/a>\u00a0received an additional $150,000 in 2012 for one year, \u201cFor advancing a democracy reform agenda using legislation, community organizing, movement building, coalition work, and unexpected alliances.\u201d
\nUnexpected alliances?\u00a0\u00a0In any event, the seven-year total of grants from the Joyce Foundation to TakeAction equals $1,200,000<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let’s break this down: \u00a0The Joyce Foundation heavily sponsors “Progressive” non-profits, including “Take Action MN”, “Protect MN”, and (I strongly suspect) “Common Cause MN”.<\/p>\n

And they pour money into at least two “non-profit” Minnesota media outlets that have pretensions to respectability; Minnesota Public Radio and the\u00a0MinnPost<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve sought comment from both organizations in the past, without success. \u00a0I’ll try again.<\/p>\n

All of this carefully obfuscated money going to support “campaign finance…reforms” is one thing.<\/p>\n

Going to buy friendly media coverage?<\/p>\n

And finding willing takers, in an industry whose “code of ethics” tells journalists who avoid financial entanglements in their “journalism?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. \u00a0I speculated that it might be the reason that MPR has been so incurious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,4,130,189,263,255],"tags":[272],"class_list":["post-39878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-narrative-for-sale","category-the-racket","tag-joyce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39887,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39878\/revisions\/39887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}