Revealed: Right-Wing Groups Spent Over $1 Million Bankrolling Fox News Host's Propaganda in Schools | Alternet - Alexader Zaitchick
February 25, 2013 - "Two foundations ... have spent more than $1 million combined funding a non-profit organization whose primary function is distributing libertarian education materials featuring Fox Business host John Stossel.
"Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund ... have paid out more than $400 million to over 1,000 conservative groups since their 1999 founding..... The groups have also been the primary funders behind an effort to flood American classrooms with packaged libertarian lessons branded with John Stossel's mustachioed face. In 2011, Donors Trust gave $540,000 to the Philadelphia-based Center for Independent Thought (CIT), with the funds earmarked for the distribution of 'Stossel in the Classroom' teaching materials....
"According to CIT's website, its mission is to 'bring the ideas of liberty to freedom-loving people around the globe.' They do so primarily through the distribution of free 'Stossel in the Classroom' videos, DVDs and discussion guides, which the program claims are currently used by more than 150,000 teachers in middle school, high school, and college classrooms around the country.
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/media/stossel-classroom-fox-news-libertarian-propaganda-pushed-americas-schools
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February 25, 2013 - "Two foundations ... have spent more than $1 million combined funding a non-profit organization whose primary function is distributing libertarian education materials featuring Fox Business host John Stossel.
"Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund ... have paid out more than $400 million to over 1,000 conservative groups since their 1999 founding..... The groups have also been the primary funders behind an effort to flood American classrooms with packaged libertarian lessons branded with John Stossel's mustachioed face. In 2011, Donors Trust gave $540,000 to the Philadelphia-based Center for Independent Thought (CIT), with the funds earmarked for the distribution of 'Stossel in the Classroom' teaching materials....
"According to CIT's website, its mission is to 'bring the ideas of liberty to freedom-loving people around the globe.' They do so primarily through the distribution of free 'Stossel in the Classroom' videos, DVDs and discussion guides, which the program claims are currently used by more than 150,000 teachers in middle school, high school, and college classrooms around the country.
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/media/stossel-classroom-fox-news-libertarian-propaganda-pushed-americas-schools
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