{"id":50533,"date":"2023-05-25T07:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50533"},"modified":"2023-05-25T07:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:16:52","slug":"money-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50533","title":{"rendered":"Money Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2023\/05\/22\/study-ap-pushes-woke-terms-across-64-climate-stories-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article about some of the money flowing into the Associated Press from groups that promote environmental extremism.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Associated Press has been running wild with leftist climate change propaganda while being paid millions by eco-extremist organizations. And yet AP still has the audacity to pretend it&#8217;s engaging in objective reporting.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u00a0MRC Business analysts found that from Feb. 15, 2022 through Feb. 15, 2023, The Associated Press (AP) pushed climate change alarmism and promoted woke environmental, social, governance (ESG) efforts across 64 climate-related stories after the legacy outlet received an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-business-arts-and-entertainment-journalism-united-states-087d1d5dd7189c529fe5d7a21a1ffb5f\">$8 million<\/a> grant from leftist nonprofit organizations like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/rockefeller-foundation\/\">Rockefeller Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/quadrivium-foundation\/\">Quadrivium (the activist organization of <\/a>News Corp. Executive Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/newscorp.com\/news-corp-leadership\/\">Rupert Murdoch\u2019s<\/a> estranged son and climate activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qdvm.org\/jamesmurdoch\">James Murdoch<\/a>), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/william-and-flora-hewlett-foundation\/\">William and Flora Hewlett Foundation<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/walton-family-foundation-inc-walmart\/\">Walton Family Foundation<\/a> (Walmart) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/diversity.hhmi.org\/\">Howard Hughes Medical Institute<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/press-releases\/2022\/ap-announces-sweeping-climate-journalism-initiative\">announced<\/a> Feb. 15, 2022, that it would \u201csignificantly expand its climate coverage\u201d with the goal to \u201cinfuse\u201d the media landscape with climate journalism backed solely by private interest groups. AP called the new development a \u201csweeping climate journalism initiative\u201d and claimed in its press release that it would retain \u201ccomplete editorial control of all content.\u201d AP also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/about\/\">claims<\/a> on its \u201cAbout Us\u201d page that it is in the business of \u201cunbiased news,\u201d which is little more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/jeffrey-clark\/2022\/02\/17\/ap-climate-army-four-leftist-big-money-orgs-fund-ap-eco\">pathetic joke<\/a>. The so-called \u201cjournalism\u201d AP has been doing on climate involves behaving like the de facto mouthpiece for its major left-wing donors who have an obsession with pushing apocalyptic climate narratives on the internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/rockefeller-foundation\/\">history<\/a> in supporting causes fixated on overpopulation is a case in point why AP\u2019s monetary tie to the organization is extremely problematic. One Jan. 5, 2022, Rockefeller Archive <a href=\"https:\/\/resource.rockarch.org\/story\/rockefeller-philanthropy-and-population-related-fields\/\">blog<\/a> ridiculously stated that \u201cIssues of family planning and concerns over population growth have long interested the Rockefeller family and their philanthropies. But deciding how to give funding, and to which aspects of the \u2018population problem,\u2019 has not always come easily.\u201d The article included a 1967 statement doom mongering about overpopulation from late Rockefeller Foundation president <a href=\"https:\/\/dimes.rockarch.org\/agents\/J4e9f88xAkgi9CwvDA2jwJ\">J. George Harrar<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>It is doubtful whether there is any problem in the world more threatening in its implications than uncontrolled population growth. Its effects are already, either directly or indirectly, touching the lives of almost every man, woman, and child.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>MRC Business previously reported in October 2021 how Murdoch in particular was already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/10\/20\/leftist-james-murdoch-investing-heavily-associated-press\">heavily invested<\/a> in a climate reporting hub at AP. MRC Business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/09\/29\/james-murdochs-foundation-gave-14250000-leftist\">analyzed<\/a> that Murdoch\u2019s Quadrivium gave a whopping $14,250,000 to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) between 2013 and 2019. EDF is a left-wing \u201cnonprofit environmental group known for its advocacy for public policies concerning global warming and a left-wing political agenda,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/environmental-defense-fund\/\">according to Influence Watch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is frightening to think that money controls what we read that is supposed to be objective news, but unfortunately that is not a new idea for most of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Newsbusters posted an article about some of the money flowing into the Associated Press from groups that promote environmental extremism. The article reports: The Associated Press has been running wild with leftist climate change propaganda while being paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2673,16598,16597,11551],"class_list":["post-50533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-newsbusters","tag-overpopulation","tag-rockefeller-foundation","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50544,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50533\/revisions\/50544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}