Laurel: To Jake Haulk. The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy boss pulls no punches in a post about Pittsburgh Public Schools: “(T)he poor academic performance and the high rates of absenteeism” (well over 40 percent, on average, at the high school level) “point to the same thing — a failed public school system.” He takes to task those who continue to think the “solution” is to throw more money at the problem. Anyone ready to listen yet? [Bolding in original.]We've done this blog post a number of times before. But Scaife's braintrust still keeps hiding the financial entanglements that connect their boss with the subject of their praise.
So we'll have to do it for them, I guess.
According to the data found at the Bridge Project, The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy has received $6,484,200 in foundation support and $5.801,000 of that comes from three foundations (The Allegheny, Carthage, and Sarah Scaife Foundations) controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife, owner of the Tribune-Review.
For those who don't have calculators handy, that's means that 89.46% of the total financial support the Allegheny Institute receives from foundations, it receives from one guy - the owner of the paper whose op-ed page just praised the Institute's president.
There's more. According to the Trib, Haulk also sits on the board of the Lincoln Institute for Public Opinion Research. And according to the data found at the Bridge Project, the Lincoln Institute has received $1,482,500 in foundation support and $980,000 of that comes from the above mentioned Allegheny Foundation. That's 68.62%, by the way.
I am sure Jake Haulk is a very nice guy. I am sure he's very smart, accomplished, respected and so on, but considering the above, I have to ask myself, "How prominent of an economic pundit would he have been without Scaife's largess?"
Now go back to today's op-ed praise by Scaife's braintrust and ask yourself that same question.
This is how the right wing noise machine works.
Amazing that Dayvoe never discloses the donors of the left wing noise machine that he quotes as authorities.
ReplyDeleteI am guessing that the Bridge Project part of Media Matters David Brock's new non profit American Bridge
Totally heir. Just this morning I was so taken aback by its front page stories that at 5 am I confiscated all the print copies from of today's Media Matters from all my neighbors front porches and mailboxes. Then I hacked the Media Matters server and stopped all transmissions to mah 'hood! I left the other publications with their .com's alone though...neighbors gotta get their "news" somehow, no?
ReplyDeleteApples = apples.