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Media Reports on Stossel's Reporting

by Sheldon Rampton — June 26, 2001 - 11:00pm

The Washington Post and other news media have started to pay attention to Stossel's latest. Here are some other examples of the coverage: Calif. Parents Attack ABC News Special (Reuters); Parents Complain About ABC Special (AP); Stossel Accused of "Tampering" (E!

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45563-2001Jun25.html

Conservative Think Tank Attacks Tax Status of Environmental Group

by Laura Miller — June 20, 2001 - 11:00pm

The conservative Frontiers of Freedom Institute has petitioned the Internal Revenue Service to rescind nonprofit status for the San Francisco environmental group Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The Arlington, VA-based research and education group--funded by the John M. Olin Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, and other right-wing foundations--has condemned RAN for being "fundamentally radical, anti-capitalist and lawless." Environmentalists worry this may have a chilling effect on activist organizations.

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San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 2001

Christian Coalition Sponsors "Activist Schools"

by Laura Miller — June 17, 2001 - 11:00pm

Amid debt and racial discrimination lawsuits, the Christian Coalition launches a new program that will teach "grassroots organizing skills to conservative Americans," according to PR Week. Beginning next month in Oregon, the schools will be held in 24 "key states" and will train "pro-life" and "pro-family" activists how to elect conservatives within their local communities as well as how to influence state and federal politics.

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PR Week, June 18, 2001

Hypocrisy at Capital Research Center

by Sheldon Rampton — June 14, 2001 - 3:25am

The Capital Research Center (CRC) is a conservative think tank whose stated mission is to do "opposition research" exposing the funding sources behind consumer, health and environmental groups. It maintains a searchable online database of funders for groups ranging from the Sierra Club to the American Cancer Society, which can be a useful research tool provided you take its pro-tobacco, pro-industry bias with a grain of salt.

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http://www.capitalresearch.org

Craig Shirley Does the Disabled

by Sheldon Rampton — May 28, 2001 - 10:58pm

Conservative PR pro Craig Shirley has created a new front group called "Disabled Americans for Death Tax Relief," which recently ran full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times, urging Congress to abolish the federal estate tax. DADTR claims that millions of Americans would be adversely affected by the tax which the federal government places on estates over $650,000.

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http://www.deathtaxrelief.org/

God Sees the Freepers

by Sheldon Rampton — May 9, 2001 - 11:00pm

This essay looks at a conservative website called www.freerepublic.com, which uses grassroots internet organizing to "pervert public polls" and "call and email congressional representatives en masse, thus creating the illusion of massive public pressure that twists the actions of elected officials. ...

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BushWatch, May 10, 2001

Sex, Lies, and Hillsdale

by Sheldon Rampton — November 29, 1999 - 12:00am

The president of Hillsdale College, described once by William Buckley, Jr. as "the most prominent conservative college in the country," was ousted from his job following a messy sex-and-suicide scandal. The college responded with what the Weekly Standard calls "clumsy attempts to cover all this up. ... It may have been the most inept attempt at damage control ever produced by an academic institution."

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Weekly Standard, November 29, 1999
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