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Knight’s Foundation: Knight Media Forum complicit sleazy unaccountable behavior from its speaker lineups to its grant-making to its board of trustees and endowment—is actively undermining its mission and grantees.
Knight Rider Republicans horrible influence over what gets covered and reported and the livelihoods or journalists.
Exploitation drove Knight-Ridder’s success, so does it drive the Knight Foundation’s philanthropy.
The Knight Foundation touches just about every aspect of journalism in the U.S. @thensim0nsaid wrote about their ties to white supremacy and journalism-killing hedge fund Alden Capital.
Knight’s dollars are invested in market-dominating firms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon—the same organizations driving the polarization, radicalization, and wealth inequality plaguing the communities that Knight says it benefits.
Trump administration had already encouraged violence against journalists dozens of times. And it openly showed indifference to their murders.
The Knight Foundation’s ties to far-right extremists undermine journalism’s future
The Knight Foundation’s ties to far-right extremists undermine journalism’s future
People affiliated with Knight when the foundation invited the man behind the Trump campaign’s Black voter suppression strategy, Brad Parscale, to speak at its annual invitation-only gathering of foundation, media, and civic leaders in 2020. He planned to train “swarms of surrogates” to undermine local news organizations in support of the president’s re-election.
The Knight Foundation, which touches just about every area of journalism in the U.S., is negating its mission and hurting its grantees. There are no areas of journalism in the U.S. that the Knight Foundation does not touch.
Launched in 1950 to steward the philanthropic wealth of media mogul brothers John and James L. Knight, the foundation is now among the most powerful media institutions in the country and the 49th largest foundation in the world.
The Knight Foundation, which touches just about every area of journalism in the U.S., is negating its mission and hurting its grantees. There are no areas of journalism in the U.S. that the Knight Foundation does not touch.
Launched in 1950 to steward the philanthropic wealth of media mogul brothers John and James L. Knight, the foundation is now among the most powerful media institutions in the country and the 49th largest foundation in the world.
$2.4 billion, invested in corporations, hedge funds, and index funds through money management firm Cambridge Associates, according to a 2019 financial statement.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Among their most heinous crimes was their role as facilitators and profiteers of the U.S. slave economy, advertising the sale of enslaved Black people or rewards for the capture of escaped slaves across both the northern and southern United States. That includes newspapers bought and sold by Knight-Ridder. That is the industry that built the Knight Foundation’s wealth.
“Control of the Message Starts with the Words you use.
Whoever controls the language controls the conversation / narrative” – KE
Linguistic Rights: What language should a nation officially call its own?
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/armynavy.html