A trio of liberal publications has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from teachers unions over the past couple of years, a fact that is not disclosed in their positive coverage of those same unions.
The New Republic, American Prospect, and Courier Newsroom have collectively accepted $905,000 since 2022 from the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, according to the unions’ financial disclosures. After accepting funds from the two largest teachers unions in the nation, each of these outlets went on to publish pieces painting them in a positive light without disclosing the funding arrangement.....
The New Republic accepted $225,000 from the AFT between August 2023 and April 2024, according to financial disclosures. Subsequently, the publication ran multiple pieces presenting both the union and its president, Randi Weingarten, positively. One such story, published in October 2023, amplified Weingarten’s argument that conservative efforts to ban sexually explicit books from public schools are part of a broader scheme to “destroy” government education. Nowhere in the piece did the outlet disclose its financial ties to the AFT. The New Republic also ran a joint “Banned Book Tour” with the AFT around the time they ran the article, which the piece does mention.
The publication ran two more pieces in August compiling labor leaders’ praise for Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) shortly after he was named the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee. The stories contained praise for Walz from the AFT, again without disclosing the publication’s financial relationship with the union.
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