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Nancy Smith

Billionaire Leftist George Soros Bought America's Media. Why Hasn't Anybody Noticed?

October 17, 2019 - 8:00am
George Soros
George Soros

Clenched-teeth presidential debaters unloaded Tuesday night on Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big-Almost-Everything -- any industry that pours Big Bucks into influencing American politics. Yet, they skimmed right over the scariest and most sinister big sell-out of all: Big Media.

Where during the CNN/New York Times Democratic debate was the crumbling Fourth Estate, whose downhill slide in the 21st Century has sent it on a desperate treasure hunt for sugar daddies to prop it up?

Why didn't the name George Soros pop up?

Democrats don't talk about Big Media's influence because they're the ones who benefit from it. With the exception of FOX, every one of the most influential national news outlets are campaigning -- I mean really flagrantly campaigning -- for far-left liberal candidates and causes.

Early in the 21st Century, George Soros, net worth $26 billion and No. 46 on Forbes' list of the World's Richest Men, discovered he had enough money and the know-how to buy opinion from ethics-challenged or foundering publishers and individual reporters, outfits large and small. Soros never owned a single media outlet. In a tangled web of lofty-sounding foundations he created to "give to causes he wanted to influence," Big Media in all its evil glory was born. 

It grew like Jack's beanstalk. 

Soros, 89, who made his fortune in investing and currency trading, is pretty much done with bringing money in. Now he makes his name for  handing it out -- in the area of politics and policy. 

Since the 2004 election, when he spent $27 million trying in vain to defeat George W. Bush, the controversial financier has used his influence and billions to push a laundry list of left-wing causes. 

Says the Reston, Va.-based media watchdog organization Media Research Center, "Pick an issue and (Soros') Open Society Foundations (OSF) likely fund the liberal position -- pro-abortion, pro-illegal immigration, pro-national health care, pro-drug legalization, pro-Big Government, anti-Israel and, ultimately, anti-America."

The $27 million "was a drop in the bucket compared to the $8 billion he has donated just to his Open Society Foundations," says the report. Soros followed that presidential failure by earning the well-deserved reputation as one of the top liberal contributors. Soon after the election, "Soros headlined a meeting of 70 millionaires and billionaires in Scottsdale, Ariz., to discuss how to grow the left's ideological assets," explained the Aug. 18, 2005, Christian Science Monitor.

Read the executive summary of Media Research's mind-boggling report, "George Soros: Media Mogul." The Hungarian-born billionaire "has managed to insinuate himself and his money into the media culture, making connections with the nation's top publishing organizations. He has direct ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets -- including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN and ABC. Each one of those operations has employees, often high-level ones, on the boards of Soros-funded media operations."

Soros' "gift" of $1.8 million to National Public Radio became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media.

The investigative reporting start-up ProPublica is a prime example of Soros' targeted media campaigns. ProPublica, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to "strengthen the progressive infrastructure" -- "progressive" the code 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, that have contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts.

ProPublica's stories are thoroughly researched by very good professionals who formerly worked at some of the biggest news outlets in the nation. "But the topics are almost laughably left-wing," says Media Research. "The site's proud list of 'Our Investigations' includes attacks on oil companies, gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools and more. More than 100 stories on the latest lefty cause: opposition to drilling for natural gas by hydraulic fracking. Another 100 on the evils of the foreclosure industry.

"Throw in a couple investigations making the military look bad and another about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and you have almost the perfect journalism fantasy -- a huge budget, lots of major media partners and a liberal agenda unconstrained by advertising."

One more thing: a 14-person Journalism Advisory Board in 2011 was stacked with CNN's David Gergen and representatives from top newspapers, a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Several were and are today working journalists, including:

  • Alberto Ibargüen, the former publisher of The Miami Herald, on the board of directors. He's also president and CEO of journalism's prestigious John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

  • Jill Abramson, a managing editor of The New York Times;

  • Martin D. Baron, the editor of The Boston Globe;

  • David Boardman, the executive editor of the Seattle Times;

  • Kerry Smith, the senior vice president for editorial quality of ABC News;

  • Cynthia A. Tucker, the editor of the editorial page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

ProPublica is a newer and more prominent example of Soros' opinion buying, but it's far from the only organization the billionaire stacked with members of the supposedly neutral press. There's also the Center for Public Integrity. Its board of directors is filled with working journalists like Christine Amanpour from ABC, right along side blatant liberal media types like Arianna Huffington, of the Huffington Post and now AOL.

"Like ProPublica, the CPI board is a veritable Who's Who of journalism and top media organizations," says Media Research, including:

  • As mentioned, "Amanpour -- Anchor of ABC's Sunday morning political affairs program, 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour.' A reliable lefty, she has called tax cuts 'giveaways,' the Tea Party 'extreme,' and Obama 'very Reaganesque.'

  • "Also as mentioned, Huffington -- Co-founder of the popular left-wing website named after her, The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and thanks to a recent $315 million sale, the person in charge of AOL's news divisions.

  • "Paula Madison -- Executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBC Universal, who leads NBC Universal's corporate diversity initiatives, spanning all broadcast television, cable, digital, and film properties.

  • "Matt Thompson - Editorial product manager at National Public Radio and, at least in 2011, an adjunct faculty member at the prominent Poynter Institute, owner of the Tampa Bay Times."

The well-known Center for Investigative Reporting follows the same template -- important journalists on the board and a liberal editorial agenda. Both the board of directors and the advisory board contain journalists from major news outlets. The board features:

  • Phil Bronstein (President), San Francisco Chronicle;

  • David Boardman, The Seattle Times;

  • Len Downie, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, now VP;

  • George Osterkamp, CBS News producer.

  • The Advisory Board features prominent liberal journalists like Bill Moyers, Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker, former '60 Minutes' host Mike Wallace, and representatives of both PBS and NPR.

Why does it all matter? Says Dan Gainor, Media Research's vice president for Business and Culture and author of the report, "Journalists, we are constantly told, are neutral in their reporting. In almost the same breath, many bemoan the influence of money in politics. It is a maxim of both the left and many in the media that conservatives are bought and paid for by business interests. Yet where are the concerns about where their money comes from?"

This is personal to me. I've reached the end of the line in a business I have loved, leaving it in real trouble. I long for the days when reporters began their investigations with questions, not statements. When they set out to find the answers, not prove some assumed, deliberately trumped-up conclusion. If I learned nothing else in 50 years, I learned that nothing is black or white. The life we live and report on is somewhere in the middle.

But, as Media Research's Gainor points out, "George Soros is teaching journalists that their industry has a future as long as he opens his wallet."

The American people may not know all they're missing, but they've sensed for a very long time that the mainstream media have failed them in a society in which "Freedom of the Press" used to mean something. Now they know their instincts were right and they know why. 


Reach Nancy Smith at nsmith@sunshinestatenews.com or at 228-282-2423. Twitter: @NancyLBSmith

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In a way, yes he is financing your life, and ruining it. He and his minions on the left want you to believe that youre a victim. They want you to think that its other people to blame for you not living up to your potential. Most lefters are eating it up, as they sit around not working or trying to find work. They collect government checks and then blame the very people paying the taxes to fund those checks instead of getting off their ass and trying. It's so much easier to blame someone else for a damaged character like laziness, entitlement, and lack of motivation/effort. I can tell you though that white people have been under the same attack that you believe you are under. Worse so, because you are hiding been sanctioned racism and we are the target of that racism. I see it everyday. Kids at school treat the white kids terribly. They are bullied and their culture has been ripped away from them and made fun of as lame. Hence, why you see white kids abandoning their culture in acceptance of other cultures to distance themselves from being white. Yes white people are subjected to more racial crap than you. I'm not going to feel sorry for you either or agree that someone should a jog based on their skin color and not their qualifications as is the current system using Affirmative Action, a racist law. So answer your question, yes, Soros is in your mindset and has influenced your life. Only you can break the cycle and take responsibility for you and quit being the victim.

To say Trump is an idiot has nothing to do with what this Article is about and that is a personal opinion. But to answer your question and this is my opinion but an opinion that is formed from a experience I had 5 years ago involving being harassed out of my 31 year job which led me to much research on Corporate Harassment , Techniques used in Corporate America and other countries when wanting to get rid of employees. The reason I bring this up because researching everyday for at least 5 hours a day every avenue from court cases, to my states employment laws, to corporations who have their own employee handbooks but say reside in an At Will State, to many more led me to the techniques used to harass a person out of their job which are also used in what is happening right now and has been happening to not just the United State, but many other countries , at the hands of Mr. George Soro's. George Soro's has many, many, many NGO's, Grant Foundations and list is so large meaning thousands in many many countries all over this world. George Soros uses those NGO's and foundations as a cover to set up networks to intervene in Sovereign Countries. What I mean by networks is that he offers money in donations to set up a foundation he already has built or he will set up a totally new one to get the cooperation of other leaders, politicians, owners of media station, radio stations, colleges, institutions of journalism. Its almost like a list that could be construed as into infinity, the way I look at it because if he already doesn't have a foundation in place to support someone he needs in his network, he will make one. All in order to administer his ideals, his way of thinking, (which there is no other way but his, as he see it and he doesn't care and there lies the problem) and to administer smear campaigns against leaders of Sovereign countries when simply stating his position and regulars persuasive fails. This network he uses to administering these smear campaigns, as we see happening in the U.S. right now and has been ongoing since day one of Trumps' election to POTUS, are impossible to escape almost. So if you are wondering how he is able to influence people its because where ever you turn whether it be to a news paper, radio, social media. They have been bought and paid for, or given financial support by George Soros which makes them almost like employees that will only portray and back his way of thinking. Even if it involves speaking total lies, fabricating stories the newpapes like NYT's, Wahington Post have written with not one single piece of factual proof the story is true. People still believe it. Why because that is all they have been hearing, seeing and reading every time they turn a corner. How awful Donald Trump is, He's a racist, he is against women, he is the reason for the racial divide in this country, he is disrespectful to the military, he is against transgender, gay and lesbians, he love White Supremacist groups and supports them, he has never disavowed White Supremacy or hate groups. Here's the thing, When you ask people in the comments seciton to show proof of what they are saying after viewing a CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS video where Donald Trump is being bashed or smeared, they can't. I always say I will wait when I ask them to but them put never mind because I will be here forever because there isn't any. When I say proof I don't mean what someone just heard on one of these media platforms, I mean striaght out proof. Where are they getting their infromation that they put in this video. Then I want to search several differnt platforms to see if what they are saying is true, Has it been edited where Trump was on video saying something, have they clearly taking it out of context and put a spin on it. But what you have to realize is if they have done that and this same message is being broadcast on 98% of the media platforms in America what is the first thing someone is going to say. Oh right, so all these other media platforms are all saying the same thing( and the Democrat leaders that start a lot of this BS, are also saying it) so you expect me to believe you your a moron. That is exactly what happens but if you ask them to provide actual proof most of the time in my experience it goes to your just a racist( never have been , didn't grow up in a racist household, town, or school nor in my adult life ever experience in the 31 years at the company I work for anythng but diversity so me personally no I am not) and a die hard Trumper(I didn't' vote for Trump in 2016 nor Hillary) , your in a cult (what cult? A cult WTH ) , you and your conspiracy theories (George Soros buying into 33 media platforms which can bee verified with a simple search with many resources is not a Conspiracy Theory, buildings burning down , cities on fire, babies being shot in there strollers are not conspiracy theories. ) , your a communist (Republican ? OK that makes sense ..to no one), but yet none of that seems to matter. Proof or no proof to what your are showing them doesn't matter. This is called emotional manipulation. That's how they are able to control what they would like the masses to think or sway towards. Sad because when you realize this is being done on such a grand platform not just here but all over the world , coincidentially at the same time, the automatic response should be wow that's odd, or why, what caused this. For someone to day the death of George Floyd is only right when it comes to the initial start up and everyone had no questions to the upheaval happening all over but its taken to many alternate routes to keep that scenario, which is when this is becoming very scary for our sovereign country and other sovereign countries. Are we going to lose the freedom that we have to think what we want, have an opinion, be able to start our own business if we have a gift we can share with others, to be able to listen to what music we want, worship as we want, watch what we want, to be ourselves and not like the people of China are where it seems many are like robots doing the same job, being paid the same wage, being monitored on every street corner by cameras and devices that track our phones which means we have no right to privacy, how we handle our families. This is what is at stake when media is taken over by a mass and emotionally manipulates the people for a personal devious agenda.

Yes! This! Very scary!

To say Trump is an idiot has nothing to do with what this Article is about and that is a personal opinion. But to answer your question and this is my opinion but an opinion that is formed from a experience I had 5 years ago involving being harassed out of my 31 year job which led me to much research on Corporate Harassment , Techniques used in Corporate America and other countries when wanting to get rid of employees. The reason I bring this up because researching everyday for at least 5 hours a day every avenue from court cases, to my states employment laws, to corporations who have their own employee handbooks but say reside in an At Will State, to many more led me to the techniques used to harass a person out of their job which are also used in what is happening right now and has been happening to not just the United State, but many other countries , at the hands of Mr. George Soro's. George Soro's has many, many, many NGO's, Grant Foundations and list is so large meaning thousands in many many countries all over this world. George Soros uses those NGO's and foundations as a cover to set up networks to intervene in Sovereign Countries. What I mean by networks is that he offers money in donations to set up a foundation he already has built or he will set up a totally new one to get the cooperation of other leaders, politicians, owners of media station, radio stations, colleges, institutions of journalism. Its almost like a list that could be construed as into infinity, the way I look at it because if he already doesn't have a foundation in place to support someone he needs in his network, he will make one. All in order to administer his ideals, his way of thinking, (which there is no other way but his, as he see it and he doesn't care and there lies the problem) and to administer smear campaigns against leaders of Sovereign countries when simply stating his position and regulars persuasive fails. This network he uses to administering these smear campaigns, as we see happening in the U.S. right now and has been ongoing since day one of Trumps' election to POTUS, are impossible to escape almost. So if you are wondering how he is able to influence people its because where ever you turn whether it be to a news paper, radio, social media. They have been bought and paid for, or given financial support by George Soros which makes them almost like employees that will only portray and back his way of thinking. Even if it involves speaking total lies, fabricating stories the newpapes like NYT's, Wahington Post have written with not one single piece of factual proof the story is true. People still believe it. Why because that is all they have been hearing, seeing and reading every time they turn a corner. How awful Donald Trump is, He's a racist, he is against women, he is the reason for the racial divide in this country, he is disrespectful to the military, he is against transgender, gay and lesbians, he love White Supremacist groups and supports them, he has never disavowed White Supremacy or hate groups. Here's the thing, When you ask people in the comments seciton to show proof of what they are saying after viewing a CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS video where Donald Trump is being bashed or smeared, they can't. I always say I will wait when I ask them to but them put never mind because I will be here forever because there isn't any. When I say proof I don't mean what someone just heard on one of these media platforms, I mean striaght out proof. Where are they getting their infromation that they put in this video. Then I want to search several differnt platforms to see if what they are saying is true, Has it been edited where Trump was on video saying something, have they clearly taking it out of context and put a spin on it. But what you have to realize is if they have done that and this same message is being broadcast on 98% of the media platforms in America what is the first thing someone is going to say. Oh right, so all these other media platforms are all saying the same thing( and the Democrat leaders that start a lot of this BS, are also saying it) so you expect me to believe you your a moron. That is exactly what happens but if you ask them to provide actual proof most of the time in my experience it goes to your just a racist( never have been , didn't grow up in a racist household, town, or school nor in my adult life ever experience in the 31 years at the company I work for anythng but diversity so me personally no I am not) and a die hard Trumper(I didn't' vote for Trump in 2016 nor Hillary) , your in a cult (what cult? A cult WTH ) , you and your conspiracy theories (George Soros buying into 33 media platforms which can bee verified with a simple search with many resources is not a Conspiracy Theory, buildings burning down , cities on fire, babies being shot in there strollers are not conspiracy theories. ) , your a communist (Republican ? OK that makes sense ..to no one), but yet none of that seems to matter. Proof or no proof to what your are showing them doesn't matter. This is called emotional manipulation. That's how they are able to control what they would like the masses to think or sway towards. Sad because when you realize this is being done on such a grand platform not just here but all over the world , coincidentially at the same time, the automatic response should be wow that's odd, or why, what caused this. For someone to day the death of George Floyd is only right when it comes to the initial start up and everyone had no questions to the upheaval happening all over but its taken to many alternate routes to keep that scenario, which is when this is becoming very scary for our sovereign country and other sovereign countries. Are we going to lose the freedom that we have to think what we want, have an opinion, be able to start our own business if we have a gift we can share with others, to be able to listen to what music we want, worship as we want, watch what we want, to be ourselves and not like the people of China are where it seems many are like robots doing the same job, being paid the same wage, being monitored on every street corner by cameras and devices that track our phones which means we have no right to privacy, how we handle our families. This is what is at stake when media is taken over by a mass and emotionally manipulates the people for a personal devious agenda.

No.. Soto is not financing your life too! He is destroying you life with this media brain washing mentality of “” poor me...I’m black I’m oppressed “! You are free nobody is oppressing you more then all the rest of us... it’s call life!! You live in the greates country of the world stop F... winning!!!

No.. Soto is not financing your life too! He is destroying you life with this media brain washing mentality of “” poor me...I’m black I’m oppressed “! You are free nobody is oppressing you more then all the rest of us... it’s call life!! You live in the greates country of the world stop F... winning!!!

What you said had nothing to do with the article. Open your eyes. You are the one that’s brainwashed

Our eyes are wide open a lot of the leftest need to be tried for treason and maybe one day there will be a revolution to eliminate these kind of people that are no good they start riots and try to tear down people's credibility on lies made up to help them and hurt everyone else

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This man needs to be taken care of and all his evil underlings....... He should have no association with America as all he does is seek to destroy Governments; look around on other non liberal websites at the trouble he has caused around the world and you will see for yourself! Be smart!

i can hardly wait for this evil man,soros, to go back to hell,where he belongs.

This is how evil works . They fill your simple minds with their opinions. The Sheeple eat it up and get in line for the slaughter. It’s all about destroying America

AGREE. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 %

Bwahahahaha...! How rich of a dubious source like MRC®, an ethnocentrist, wannabe pressure-group.. ...To be quoted almost single-handedly in a whining paronia-piece by Sunshine® State News — another dubious source! It would be so laughable had it been not so stale.. And ludicrous! And The Godfather-like image of bugaboo "Soros": Certainly sells it to the target-audience! "Oooohhh... Jesus H Crust*! So.. So-ho-hoho.. menacing."

Ahhhhhh, but The Sunshine News has is all right. It's good he is being exposed. He is an evil, power hungry pathetic shell of a man.

Hits too close to home? I smell your panic. Maybe you can get the IRS to hide those 990's. It's too easy to follow the money.

Your total stupidity speaks for itself Bwahhahaha.

CHINESS WONKS POSING AS AMERICANS. THEY WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION CHINA =EVIL

As far as I remember It was the Western Culture who has tried to destroy China in the past 3 Centuries and obliged them to buy Opium but the western civilization tells us that the Wicked come from China and Russia and as I remember it was the British, Spaniards and Portuguise who destroy America and its native civilization. The Whites say the Afroamericans are bad people but who brought them to america.

“Without the with man , it wouldn’t America’s.. no North America , Central America, South America!! Without the Portuguese, Spanish. If you don’t like it the Americans and America’s Go back to Africa, Pakistan, Iran , Iraq, Russia! Go as for Asylum at George Soros communist country. Go to China... just get out !!

UNCLE JOE BIDEN FLEW TO CHINA AS VP TO PICK UP 5 BILLION DOLLARS TO TAKE BACK TO SUPPORT DEMOCRATS. BIDEN MADE HIS COKE HEAD SON BE HIS BAG MAN. IT WAS LAUGHABLE WHEN BEIJING SAID THEY GAVE THE MONEY TO BIDEN TO INVEST IN US COMPANIES. PROBLEM IS NOT A PENNY WAS INVESTED IN US COMPANIES- WHY WOULD THEY AS THE CHINESE WOULD BE COMPETING WITH THEMSELVES. DUH THEY STOLE THE TECHNOLOGY COPIED IT AND NOW SELL IT THROUGH THE ANTI-AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF COMPANIES

Truth... 3 days ago declassified data on investigations indicate joe bidens bagman HIS SON? never visited ukraine before receiving 50k month and millions in ukraine cash for bursima JOE.... yet hunter biden received the cash for a business deal ie. energy company?? SURE! the same hunter biden with zero experience in the energy industry..... naturally joe biden went for broke on china... they paid huge.... again hunter the bagman.... china loves democrats....... i guess i would too if i was a govt leader seeking preferential treatment from corrupt american officials..... democrats love it so much theyll support biden for president in 2020..... biden sellin out america... they love it! they hate on trump when he tries eliminate this corruption and push faux impeachment fake whistle blowers etc

JEFF BEZOS = COUSIN OF GEORGE SOROS = CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AMAZON IS A FRONT COMPANY FOR BEIJING THEY NEEDED A WAY TO SELL THE FAKES-KNOCK OFF 'S FOR BEIJING. THE TARIFFS HAD NO EFFECT ON CHINA AND IN FACT IT BENEFITED THEM. BOZO BEZOS A USED BOOK SALESMAN SUDDENLY WAKES UP ONE DAY WITH ACCESS TO BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN INVENTORY. THIS IDIOT IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

CNN = COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK SOROS IS JUST A FRONT MAN FOR THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. IT IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN MOVE THE LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO THEIR DEMOCRATIC USEFUL IDIOTS. FOLLOW THE MONEY AND YOU WILL DECLARE WAR ON CHINA AND ISSUE AN INTERNATIONAL WARRANT FOR THE ARREST OF GEORGE SOROS FOR SEDITION.

CNN = COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK

Soros is an evil genius and should be stopped. It’s difficult to accept that so many Americans have sold their country out for that mans money. They will ruin the best thing that ever happened on this planet. All due to personal greed!

No as americans we didnt intentionally sell out for his money we were chasing "The American Dream" not realizing the dream was dead and what was left was nothing more then a nightmare.

If Soros is evil, what do you say about the Koch brothers, and the Sinclair Broadcasting Group? They are as far RIGHT as you can get.

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