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Recently published books that cite Media Transparency:
One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century
Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten (2006) - Wiley
Two Los Angeles Times reporters examine how the Republican party has utilized pro-industry regulation to build its campaign war chests, and combined that with single-issue marketing, judiciary packing and gerrymandering to win elections.
Chapter 7: The Business of America is Business — and Lobbying
The Powell memo is available online at www.mediatransparency.org; for a discussion of the memo's import, see also Jerry Landay, "The Powell Manifesto," a paper posted at www.mediatransparency.org."
Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine
Richard P. Sloan (2006) - St. Martin's Press
Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University, examines reports of the connection between religion and medicine and finds then greatly exaggerated and detrimental to both. He also blames dissatisfaction with contemporary medicine, uncritical media stories about religion and health, and advocacy groups that promote a link between religion and health, for encouraging patients to seek alternative treatments that exploit the connection.
Page 62: According to the Media Transparency Web site, the National Institute for Healthcare Research received 124 awards totaling $8,025,772 from 1998 to 2002. Every award came from the John Templeton Foundation.
Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power
Thomas Byrne Edsall (2006) - Basic Books
Former Washington Post reporter Edsall argues that every aspect of society and every office of government is being turned to the purpose of strengthening Republican institutions -- businesses, evangelical Protestant churches -- and weakening Democratic ones, such as unions and consumer groups.
Page 5: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations, Media Transparency, available online at http://www.mediatransparency.org/conservativephilanthropy.php
Governance And the Public Good
William G. Tierney, Editor (2006) - State University of New York Press
Contributors to this anthology explore the role of the contemporary university, its relationship to the public good beyond an obligation to educate for jobs, and the subsequent impact on how institutions of higher education are and should be governed.
Page 71: National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), 1997. Moving a Public Policy Agenda; The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations (July), Retrieved May 1, 2004, from: http://www.mediatransparency.org/conservativephilanthropy.php
Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future
James Carville and Paul Begala (2006) - Simon & Schuster
These two well-known pundits and campaign consultants examine the current political landscape and offer up a prescription for helping their party regain power, while dissecting the missteps of the Democratic campaigns of 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Lewis Powell, "Attack on the Free Enterprise System," 8/23/71, online at http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storylD=22
Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate
Alexander Nikolaev and Ernest A. Hakanen (2006) - Palgrave Macmillan
An analysis of the pre-war media debate that offers insight into each nation's stance on the war and its political reasoning, and in the process uncovers the implications for each country's position on international concerns.
Chapter 4: Their Morals are Ours. The title of this section and much of the information contained here comes from Jerry M. Landay’s, excellent article "The Apparat: George W. Bush’s backdoor political machine."
Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She Is Changing the World
Dan Kindlon (2006) - Rodale Books
Kindlon, a professor of child psychology at Harvard, uses case studies and other research to argue that a new breed of liberated teenage girls is growing up throughout America, and that these "alpha girls" are primed to take leadership positions in society.
22. MediaTransparency.org: Foundation Grants: American Enterprise Institute. Available online at: http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=19
Caught In The Crossfire: Kids, Politics, And America's Future
Lawrence Grossberg (2005) - Paradigm Publishers
Grossberg, a professor of communications and cultural studies, examines the forces changing the ways people live their lives through the lens of America’s children, arguing that the U.S. has been gradually shifting from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is hostile to and afraid of its own children.
P. 115: "The Powell Memorandum" is available at www.mediatransparency.org.
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro (2005) - Princeton University Press
Yale professors Graetz and Shapiro look at American politics through the lens of the estate tax repeal saga, unraveling the mystery of how the tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support.
Chapter 9: Exploiting the Think Tank Gap: For background on the Heritage Foundation, see http://www.heritage.org/Support/about.cfm and http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=153
Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy
Nancy J. Myers and Carolyn Raffensperger (2005) - The MIT Press
The communications director and founding director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, provide a toolkit for applying precautionary concepts to reshape environmental policies at all levels, offering both citizens and policymakers the necessary tools for acting on any issue in any situation -- whether it's pesticide use at local schools or a new international regulatory system for chemicals.
References: Jerry M. Landay. "How a Prominent Lawyer's Attack Memo Changed America." Mediatransparency.org, Aug. 20, 2002. Accessed in April 2004 at http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=21
Using Terri: The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
Jon Eisenberg (2005) - HarperSanFrancisco
Eisenberg, a lawyer who filed briefs on behalf of Michael Schiavo, examines the strategies of the religious right, and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where to expect future legal maneuvers on religious and bioethical issues.
Page 94: [W]ondering who was funding the Schindlers' advocates, I asked my law firm's librarian to hit the computer and see if she could find anything on funding for Rita Marker or Wesley Smith. A few hours later, she produced something baffling--an Internet reference indicating that Marker's organization, the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, had received a grant of $110,390 in 2001 from the Randolph Foundation... she found this reference on a web site called mediatransparency.org, which tracks funding by right-wing organizations. She told me to check out the web site, saying it would show me "one big web of donations and grants."
Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy
Charles Derber (2005) - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Arguing that political parties and elections are increasingly political theatre, with real power hidden behind a smokescreen of propaganda, carefully manipulated cultural and religious wars, and voting rituals, sociology professor Derber advocates an alliance between the Democratic Party and the hidden power of the title — grass roots movements working for progressive change.
Chapter 6: For discussion of the Kristol and Krauthammer incidents, see "William Kristol" on MediaMatters.org, January 24, 2005, at http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=5
Un-Making Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law
by Jay M. Feinman (2005) - Beacon Press
Rutgers law professor Feinman argues that conservatives are engaged in a campaign to turn back the clock on the common law-the law of contract, property, and personal injury-to increase the rights of big business. He cites as examples the protection of gun manufacturers from lawsuits and the hampering of government to protect the environment.
19. Media Transparency, "Citizens for a Sound Economy," Media Transparency, "Koch Family Foundations," http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=9
Critical Theories, IR and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement
Catherine Eschle (2005) - Routledge
Eschle, a lecturer in politics in the Department of Government at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, provides an analysis of the "anti-globalization" movements taking place in many different parts of the world, and illustrates this with detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Media Transparency Project (2003a) 'Bradley Fighting Vehicle', Online at http://www.mediatransparency.org, (2003b) 'The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation', (2003c) 'John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.', (2003d) 'Scaife Foundations.'
The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy
Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich (2005) - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
The authors examine recent efforts to privatize Social Security, public schools and health care, welfare bureaucracies, the military and prisons, contending that such initiatives are often predicated on efforts to drain funds from public programs in order to create the very crises that privatization purports to fix.
Chapter 9: Lewis F. Powell's 1971 memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "Attack on American Free Enterprise System," which laid out an agenda for business to pursue to influence "the campus," "graduate schools of business," "scholarly journals," "the courts," and the "political arena," See the Media Transparency website: http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=22
Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present
Ellen Reese (2005) - University of California Press
Sociology professor Reese examines the contemporary welfare backlash by reconstructing the dynamics of an earlier wave of attacks on welfare mothers half a century ago, exposing the critical role of conservative low-wage employers (mainly in agriculture) in launching the anti-welfare campaigns of that era, and showing how a broader coalition of low-wage employers played the same role in the recent backlash.
53. Grant data is from www.mediatransparency.org, Institute for American Values, 2002a, 2002b.
The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal
Joe Conason (2005) - PoliPointPress
Salon and New York Observer columnist Conason explores the Right's privatization goals, specifically those relating to Social Security. He looks at who is behind the plan, and how they orchestrated a lavishly funded media campaign to undermine confidence in Social Security.
26. Bill Berkowitz, "Richard Viguerie's Army Attacks Social Security," Media Transparency, March 9, 2005.
What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World
Melissa Rossi (2005) - Plume
Award-wnning veteran journalist Rossi examines the ways in which individuals, organizations, and corporations are influencing the Executive Branch to do things their way.
Chapter 17: Think Tanks
4. See "The Heritage Foundation" file at Media Transparency's Web site for more information. http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientlD=153
Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century
Douglas S. Massey (2005) - Princeton University Press
Sociology and public affairs professor Massey offers up a blueprint for a liberalism based on the Recognition that markets, both domestic and global, are not autonomous mechanisms, but are subject to either democratic control or narrow private manipulation.
Table 5: “The Leading Foundations Supporting the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy,” sources include Website for Media Transparency at http://www.mediatransparency.org.
The People's Business
Charlie Cray and Lee Drutman (2004) - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Cray, the director of the Center for Corporate Policy, and Drutman, a former communications director at the Ralph Nader-founded Citizen Works, examine the nature of corporate power and explain how ordinary people can restore citizen control, while offering up their ideas for transforming corporations into engines of public prosperity and creating a more sustainable society.
Introduction: 8. "The Powell Memorandum" (a letter from Powell to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Education Committee chairman Eugene B. Syndor Jr., August 23, 1971).
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News
Eric Alterman (2004) - Basic Books
The columnist for The Nation and Media Matters charges conservatives in the media and the Republican party with lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth, and that the perception of such a bias has cowed many media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to counterbalance a liberal bias that doesn't exist.
"Citizen Scaife." 82. Kaiser and Chinoy, Washington Post. See also www.mediatransparency.org. 83. www.mediatransparency.org. 84 http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=3.
Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species
Laura Flanders (2004) - Verso
The host of Air America's "RadioNation" takes Bush administration appointees like Condoleezza Rice and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to task for betraying the causes — affirmative action, civil rights and feminism — that helped them rise to prominence, while allowing the Republican Party to use them as identity politics puppets for expanding its minority voting base.
45: For more on the Independent Womens Forum's funding see http://www.mediatransparency.org
Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World
Melanie Walker and Jon Nixon (2004) - Open University Press
A textbook that examines the current state of higher education internationally, including changes through policies and practices of audit, performativity and 'market' values, and explores ways to construct an alternative vision for higher education.
Page 60: The Scaife, Bradley and Olin foundations, and others, have provided the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the current publisher of "Choosing the Right College," with more than $12.5 million between 1995 and 2001 (Media Transparency).
Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives
Amy E. Black, Douglas L. Koopman and David K. Ryden (2004) - Georgetown University Press
Three political scientists examine the evolution of the Bush faith-based strategy, showing how political rhetoric, infighting, and poor communication shipwrecked his efforts to fundamentally alter the way government might conduct social services, and propose what they consider to be a more fruitful, effective way to go about such initiatives in the future.
Sources: Media Transparency. "Robert Bork." http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=10
The Republican Noise Machine: Right Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy
David Brock (2004) - Random House
Media Matters' founder Brock mounts a systematic assault on the right-wing media juggernaut of think tanks, publishers, talk radio shows, Web sites and cable networks, arguing that the once-fringe phenomenon of right-wing media has all but subsumed the regular media conversation, shaped the national consciousness, and turned American politics sharply to the right.
Page 98: According to the Web site Media Transparency, [Dinesh] D'Souza, who popularized the term "political correctness," has received $1.5 million in right-wing grants to support his speaking and writing, including money for books apparently never written.
Black and White Case: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge
Greg Stohr (2004) - Bloomberg Press
The Supreme Court reporter for Bloomberg News looks at the University of Michigan law school affirmative-action program, upheld by a slim margin by the U.S. Supreme Court, and interviews members of a conservative legal think tank that had previously targeted racial preferences in admissions to universities in some southern states.
Chapter 2, Getting Lawyered Up: The Pioneer Fund donations are documented in that organization's tax returns, IRS form 990-PF, for years in question. Other information on donations can be found through www.mediatransparency.org.
You Call This a Democracy?
Paul Kivel (2004) - The Apex Press
Kivel analyzes how the ruling class has created and uses the Constitution, corporations and the courts, as well as a host of other mechanisms such as tax laws, wars and buffer zones to dominate U.S. society and accumulate wealth.
Bibliography: Wilayto, Phil. "The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation." Available at http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=1
Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (2004) - Tarcher
The Center for Media and Democracy's Rampton and Stauber argue that the GOP leadership maintains its hold on power through the systemic manipulation of the electoral system, the media, the lobbying establishment, and the political culture at large.
Chapter 1, The Marketplace of Ideas: A list of the American Legislative Exchange Council's funders can be found on MediaTransparency, http:// www.mediatransparency.org.
Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture
Stanley J. Baran (2003) - McGraw-Hill Companies
A university textbook that makes media literacy central to its approach, encourages students to take more active roles as media consumers, and examines the role that the media play in both shaping and reflecting culture.
Listing under Important Resources: Media Watchdog: www.mediatransparency.org
Inequality, Power, and Development: Issues in Political Sociology
by Jerry Kloby (2003) - Humanity Books
Presenting data on the increase of wealth and income inequality, sociology professor Kloby argues that many of the policies pursued by the developed nations and international corporations have led to a deterioration of living standards and the environment in many parts of the world, and that a power shift in the U.S. has weakened the working class.
70. According to an April 24, 2002, New York Times report. See online, National Endowment for Democracy, http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=251
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
Ted Nace (2003) - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Nace, an entrepreneur and activist whose home-based business publishing computer guides was purchased by the international media conglomerate, Pearson, uses that experience as a jumping-off point to scrutinize the legal framework of the corporation and untangle questions about how and why the corporation evolved as it did.
Chapter Twelve: The Revolt of the Bosses: Lewis Powell's memorandum: Jerry M. Landay, "The Powell Manifesto: How A Prominent Lawyer's Attack Memo Changed America," Mediatransparency.org, Aug. 20, 2002.
Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
Mary Lee Smith (2003) - RoutledgeFalmer
Education policy professor Smith contends that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years, from voucher programs to No Child Left Behind, are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain.
Page 218: According to the watchdog group, Media Transparency, Chester Finn, Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan administration, received over $1 million to conduct policy research and outreach to promote neo-conservative ideas. Paul Peterson received a lucrative award from a right-wing think tank for his research supporting vouchers. The political scientist John Chubb received $400,000 from the Bradley and Olin foundations to support his research on privatizing schools.
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