Just taking a stab in the dark, but it could be because he pays journalists (indirectly) not to talk about him. And since they agree with his politics anyway, they don’t talk about him. So we don’t hear about it.
Prominent journalists like ABC’s Christiane Amanpour and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical code stating: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived.”
This information is part of an upcoming report by the Media Research Centers Business & Media Institute which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.
The investigative reporting start-up ProPublica is a prime example. ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure” – “progressive” being the code word for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is www.soros.org. It is a network of more than 30 international foundations, mostly funded by Soros, who has contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts.
And so forth and so on. The shadow party: It’s bigger than you think.
Society of Professional Hypocrites is more like it. Their “code of ethics” should read “Whatever Georgie wants, Georgie gets.”
Read a blog called The Great Cosmopolitan Attraction. It is written by a seeker of truth.
This research was conducted by the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute. Who are they?
It is funded by almost entirely by Richard Mellon Scaife, A billionaire contributor to the Republican Party and right-wing think-tanks. A family-values sort of guy, in 2005 the reclusive 75-year-old was photographed with a woman named Tammy Vasco, a tall, blonde 43-year-old whose criminal history includes two arrests for prostitution. The pair was photographed at Doug’s Motel, a roadside establishment near Pittsburgh, where rooms rent for $49 a night, or $31 for three hours.
Media Research Center is led by L Brent Bozell III, hardly an independent journalist. During the 2004 elections Bozell launched a 2.8 million dollar campaign (where did he get that kind of money?) to discredit the “liberal media”. He attempted to smear Sen. John Ferry by accusing him of “soldier-smearing”, for having reported, during his 1971 Congressional testimony, on atrocities being committed in Vietnam. And recently he called the FOX-TV show “Glee,” “gay teen propaganda.”
And the people who investigate and write for him?
Dan Gainor – Vice President of Business & Culture for the MRC, is a FOX News contributor. Staff Writer Jeff Poor contributes to the Drudge Report and Staff Writer Julia Seymour also writes for Fox Business Network and Ted Nugent’s “Ted, White and Blue”