One of the nation’s premier news services is in a league with left-wing climate activists who seek a “rapid phase-out of fossil fuels,” and want reporters to promote that scheme.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the Associated Press took $300,000 from the KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit that promotes a swift end to the usage of oil and natural gas.
The Free Beacon noted that the AP did not want to spread the word of its shilling for a major green-energy activist group.
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Although the KR Foundation funded the AP’s grant in December 2002, the news service took more than a year to acknowledge the group’s financial backing. That happened just this week.
The grant runs through the end of 2024.
This significant donation matters because the AP claims it is read by 4 billion people around the world every day. And its reporting is already laced with the KR Foundation’s propaganda.
“While the AP says it maintains editorial independence from its deep-pocketed donors, its climate reporting reflects many of the KR Foundation’s core beliefs,” the Free Beacon noted.
“A recent AP story about the United Nations’ annual climate conference praised negotiators who sought a ‘phase-out of fossil fuels’ in order to save ‘a planet in peril’ that is ‘dangerously warming.’ An article last month asked: ‘How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate?’”
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But the KR Foundation is not alone in pushing the AP to promote its left-wing climate agenda.
The Free Beacon reported that in 2023 liberal charitable organizations, such as the Hewlett Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, started bankrolling the AP’s “sweeping climate journalism initiative” in an effort to “infuse climate coverage in all aspects” of the service’s reporting.
The AP, founded in 1846, once prided itself on its independence, balance, and nonpartisanship.
As Smithsonian Magazine reported in May 2021, “Unlike most American news outlets at the time, the AP took a firmly nonpartisan stance, providing reports to Democratic- and Republican-aligned publications alike. ‘My dispatches are merely dry matters of fact and detail,’ the first Washington bureau chief, Lawrence Gobright, said in 1856.”
Those days are long gone.
The Free Beacon noted that the KR Foundation is “the latest left-wing charity to fund the Associated Press. … Philanthropies that support packing the Supreme Court, defunding the police, and other left-wing initiatives have contributed millions of dollars to the AP in recent years.”
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And the effect is noticeable.
According to the Free Beacon, AllSides, a group that tracks media bias, 2023 changed its bias rating for the AP from “center” to “leans left” because the stories it chose to cover reflected the liberal agenda and point of view.
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