- Bill Moyers, his son John, and their moneyed sidekicks,
the Schumann brothers, hate the free market with intemperate ferocity,
as the quote above suggests. They spend millions inherited from an IBM
founder and a president of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation to
tear down America's free market economy. They have their hands in many
pies. Here are some.
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- Triple roles: journalist, advocate, financier.
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- Bill Moyers:
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- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The money, the message,
and the messenger. Conflict of interest?
- The Florence and John Schumann Foundation, President
(part time, 1998 salary $100,043, benefits $4,626)
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- Bill's background: was Deputy Director of the Peace Corps
in the Kennedy Administration and Special Assistant to President Lyndon
B. Johnson from 1963-1967. He was a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation
for 12 years, and currently serves as president of The Florence and John
Schumann Foundation.
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- Bill's tactics: Bill Moyers pays advocates to come up
with an anti-corporate, anti-capitalist message, then reports the totally
biased outcome on PBS television.
- For example:
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- Bill's message: On March 26, 2001, Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS) stations across the country aired a 90-minute investigative
report on the chemical industry titled "Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report."
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- It came with a 30-minute panel discussion afterward.
The report hit the chemical industry. It portrayed them as having engaged
decades ago in a cold, calculated cover-up of deadly health effects linked
to certain chemicals, resulting in death and illness for many workers.
In other words, the program implied that the chemical industry was guilty
of premeditated murder of its own employees.
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- Bill's money: For the post-show panel, Moyers chose Kenneth
A. Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a rabidly
anti-capitalist group funded by big foundations, including Moyers' Florence
and John Schumann Foundation. Moyers acknowledged that he had given a "small
grant" to EWG (In fact it was four grants, $225,000 in 1989, $35,000
and $50,000 in 1995, and $15,000 in 1999, for a total of $325,000 - a third
of a million isn't "small" to most of us).
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- Moyers also had Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and
chairman of preventive medicine from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
In his on-air introduction of Landrigan, Moyers failed to mention that
the doctor is also a long-time activist with Physicians for Social Responsibility,
an anti-corporate advocacy group.
- Both Cook and Landrigan had advance knowledge of the
show's subject matter.
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- The chemical industry was represented by two men who
had no advance knowledge of the show's contents.
- Bill the messenger: He let the chemical guys comment
on how he beat them up. To Bill, that's fair.
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- Totally biased.
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- Then there's the Moyers hypocrisy.
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- For example:
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- Bill's talk: "The single most important thing environmentalists
can do to ensure America's national security is to fight to reduce our
nation's dependence on oil, whether imported or domestic." Bill Moyers,
EGA Keynote
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- Bill's walk: The Schumann Foundation gets the money for
its environmental grants in large part from investments in oil and gas
companies, according to its most recent available tax returns:
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- 2000 shares of British Petroleum;
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- 5,000 shares Columbia Gas Systems;
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- 4,200 shares Conoco, Inc.;
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- 3,900 shares Keyspan Energy (natural gas distribution);
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- 10,000 shares Noble Affiliates (oil & gas exploration
and development);
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- 10,200 shares Pioneer Natural Resource Company (oil &
gas exploration and development);
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- 10,000 shares Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Royal Dutch
/ Shell Oil holding company);
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- 10,000 shares Shell Transportation and Trading Company
(another Royal Dutch / Shell Oil holding company); plus
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- 12,500 shares of Ford Motor Company.
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- Message? The single most important thing Bill Moyers
can do is get rich from our nation's dependence on oil, whether imported
or domestic.
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- Son of Bill - John Moyers:
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- The Florence and John Schumann Foundation, Executive
Director (salary $85,000, benefits $22,228)
- The Florence Fund, Executive Director
- TomPaine.com (website project of Florence Fund)
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- "TomPaine.com is a project of The Florence Fund,
a 501.c.3 non-profit corporation based in Washington, D.C. We are funded
by foundations and individual donors, and we take no corporate or union
funding. Nor do we accept advertising -- that gives us editorial independence,
and it gives you, our reader, freedom from annoying banner advertising.
Our principle funding comes from the Florence and John Schumann Foundation,
a major supporter of other independent media efforts, including National
Public Radio, the Columbia Journalism Review, public TV's "Frontline"
and "POV" documentary series, and The American Prospect magazine."
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- TomPaine.com may be independent from you and me, but
it's not independent from Bill Moyers' money or his opinions.
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- Friends of Bill
- W. Ford Schumann
- Robert Schumann
- Heirs of the IBM and General Motors Acceptance Corporation
money
- The Florence and John Schumann Foundation, both brothers
are officers
- The Florence Fund, both brothers are directors
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- W. Ford Schumann is principal of the W. Ford Schumann
Foundation, trustee of the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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- Claremont Institute on Tom Paine.com
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- Bucks for Bill
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- Bill got bucks from 12 foundations, funneled through
13 recipients.
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- Bill's Donors: 1. Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Inc.;
2. The Kohlberg Foundation, Inc.; 3. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
4. Charles H. Revson Foundation, Inc.; 5. The Nathan Cummings Foundation,
Inc.; 6. The Annie E. Casey Foundation; 7. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation;
8. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; 9. The Joyce Foundation;
10. The California Wellness Foundation; 11. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation;
12. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
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- Recipients That Pass Bucks to Bill: 1. W N E T Channel
13, NYC, NY; 2. Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC, NY; 3. American
Library Association, Chicago, IL; 4. Genesis Project, NYC, NY; 5. Public
Affairs Television, NYC, NY; 6. Jewish Media Fund, NYC, NY; 7. Institute
for Christian Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD; 8. Educational Broadcasting
Corporation. WNET Channel 13, NYC, NY; 9. Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo,
MI; 10. Communications Consortium Media Center. Media Center, DC; 11. MDC,
Chapel Hill, NC; 12. ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Spartanburg, SC;
13. Chicago Educational Television Association, Chicago, IL.
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- Grants Bill got:
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- Record 1
- FOUNDATION NAME: Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation,
Inc.
- RECIPIENT: W N E T Channel 13, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For teacher's guide and Web site to accompany
PBS series Fooling With Words, with Bill Moyers, based on 1998 Geraldine
R. Dodge Poetry Festival
- AMOUNT: $150,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999
- Record 2
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Kohlberg Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC,
NY
- ABSTRACT: For Bill Moyers-On Our Own Terms
- AMOUNT: $500,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
- Record 3
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- RECIPIENT: American Library Association, Chicago, IL
- ABSTRACT: For public education programs in conjunction
with PBS Series, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying in America
- AMOUNT: $170,313 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999
- DURATION: 1.25-year grant
- Record 4
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Inc.
(The Sara Lee foods fortune)
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC,
NY
- ABSTRACT: To conduct research for television series,
Living with Dying, with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $40,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
- Record 5
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles H. Revson Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Genesis Project, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For various nonprofit organizations to create
educational materials and education programs in conjunction with the series,
Genesis: A Living Conversation, with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $150,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996
- Record 6
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles H. Revson Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Genesis Project, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For various nonprofit organizations to create
educational materials and education programs in conjunction with the series,
Genesis: A Living Conversation, with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $34,500 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996
- Record 7
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Public Affairs Television, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For research and development of Bill Moyers
television special on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- AMOUNT: $40,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
- Record 8
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles H. Revson Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Public Affairs Television, NYC, NY
- RECIPIENT TYPE: Television (A32); Public affairs (W99)
- ABSTRACT: To complete film production and development
of educational materials for public television series based on stories
in the Book of Genesis, with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $50,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995
- Record 9
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles H. Revson Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Jewish Media Fund, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For initial development phases of educational
and outreach activities for Genesis series with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $18,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995
- Record 10
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles H. Revson Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Institute for Christian Jewish Studies, Baltimore,
MD
- ABSTRACT: To develop model for interfaith and interracial
discussion groups in conjunction with Genesis series with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995
- Record 11
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Joyce Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation. WNET
Channel 13, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For What Can We Do About Violence, program
by Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $150,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1994
- Record 12
- FOUNDATION NAME: The California Wellness Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Public Affairs Television, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For Bill Moyers production, Overcoming Youth
Violence, four-hour introduction to The National Public Television Campaign
to Combat Youth Violence
- AMOUNT: $250,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1994
- Record 13
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC,
NY
- ABSTRACT: For production and promotion of Families First
with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $35,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1992
- Record 14
- FOUNDATION NAME: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Public Affairs Television, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: For cultural and public affairs productions
of Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $1,500,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1992
- DURATION: 3-year grant
- Record 15
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI
- ABSTRACT: For Healing and the Mind, with Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $250,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1990
- Record 16
- FOUNDATION NAME: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Communications Consortium Media Center. Media
Center, DC
- ABSTRACT: For staff to work with grantees to develop
communications strategies in states where family preservation programs
are well-established by focusing national media attention on initiatives
and by building additional communications activities around Bill Moyers'
documentary on family preservation
- AMOUNT: $175,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
- DURATION: 1 1/2-year grant
- Record 17
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (General
Motors money)
- RECIPIENT: MDC, Chapel Hill, NC
- ABSTRACT: For outreach work related to documentary All
Our Children with Bill Moyers and subsequent teleconferences
- AMOUNT: $20,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
- Record 18
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- RECIPIENT: ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Spartanburg,
SC
- ABSTRACT: For additional promotional and production costs
for Bill Moyers' documentary, All Our Children
- AMOUNT: $75,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991DURATION: 1 1/4-year
grant
- Record 19
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- RECIPIENT: ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Spartanburg,
SC
- ABSTRACT: For reprinting and distributing additional
promotional materials and technical assistance guides in support of repeat
telecasting of Bill Moyers All Our Children documentary
- AMOUNT: $35,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
- Record 20
- FOUNDATION NAME: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Inc.
- RECIPIENT: W N E T Channel 13, NYC, NY
- ABSTRACT: To produce teacher education guide for high
schools and colleges to accompany Moyers: The Power of the Word, six-part
series on contemporary poetry inspired by Dodge Foundation's biennial Poetry
Festival at Waterloo Village
- AMOUNT: $80,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1989
- Record 21
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- RECIPIENT: MDC, Chapel Hill, NC
- ABSTRACT: For outreach activities related to Mott-funded
documentary on at-risk youth being produced by Bill Moyers for airing in
early 1991 on national public television network
- AMOUNT: $99,221 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1990
- Record 22
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- RECIPIENT: ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Spartanburg,
SC
- ABSTRACT: For outreach programs and activities related
to Mott-funded documentary on at-risk youth produced by Bill Moyers for
airing in early 991 on national public television network
- AMOUNT: $300,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1990
- Record 23
- FOUNDATION NAME: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC,
NY
- ABSTRACT: For production of programs by Bill Moyers for
WNET, Channel 13
- AMOUNT: $625,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1989
- DURATION: 3-year grant
- Record 24
- FOUNDATION NAME: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC,
NY
- ABSTRACT: For challenge grant for weekly production of
The World of Ideas, under direction of Bill Moyers, for WNET, Channel 13
- AMOUNT: $1,875,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1989
- DURATION: 3-year grant
- Record 25
- FOUNDATION NAME: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Chicago Educational Television Association,
Chicago, IL
- ABSTRACT: For weekly production of The World of Ideas,
under direction of Bill Moyers
- AMOUNT: $1,875,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1989
- DURATION: 3-year grant
- Record 26
- FOUNDATION NAME: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Chicago Educational Television Association,
Chicago, IL
- ABSTRACT: For production of programs produced by Bill
Moyers for WTTW, Channel 11
- AMOUNT: $625,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1989
- DURATION: 3-year grant
- Record 27
- FOUNDATION NAME: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- RECIPIENT: Educational Broadcasting Corporation, NYC,
NY
- ABSTRACT: For production costs of 90-minute documentary
by Bill Moyers building upon findings of 1988 Mott-sponsored report, America's
Shame, America's Hope: Twelve Million Youth At Risk
- AMOUNT: $850,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1989
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