According to Gallup polling released in October, the level of confidence Americans have in the media to report the news in a full, fair, and accurate way is tied with a five-decade low.
It’s no surprise, given the recent rise of flagrant news media bias. But the deep-seated political ideology of some journalists organically seeping into coverage is only one piece to the puzzle.Traditionally, the news media has been funded by a combination of advertising and subscriptions.
The reporter acknowledges the governor’s farming operation is only a “potential culprit” and later notes that per the Nebraska Dept. of Environment and Energy, no hog farm is known to have contaminated a rural resident’s drinking water. The critical distinction is buried 60 paragraphs into the story.
The outlet is funded by a handful of wealthy groups through the Nebraska Journalism Trust—a nonprofit incorporated in 2021. According to the Trust’s tax return for that year, about 40% of its income came from one source: the Weitz Family Foundation. This foundation is run by a family politically active on the left, with money also supporting the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Nebraska Abortion Resources, and Black Votes Matter.
A California foundation is funding The Guardian, an international publication, to write a series of articles critical of the U.S. food model. The funding supports “a year-long series examining the injustices of America’s broken food system in which Big Food corporations and industrial farming hurt consumers, farmers and workers across the industry.”
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