Tides Foundation

Words Matter: How Media Can Build Civility or Destroy It

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda, National Review, Tides Foundation, Clarence Dupnik, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Media, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Jared Loughner, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Media News
Sarah van Gelder

We can't know at this point what role media provocation may have played in Loughner's decision. Indeed, his actions raise as many questions about our policies on gun ownership and mental illness as they do about our political climate.

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Rights Come with Responsibilities; the Right Shirks Theirs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Bill O?Reilly, Tea Party, Joyce Kaufman, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, Sharron Angle, Byron Williams, Usw, United Steelworkers, Jon Kyl, Sarah Palin, Republican, Sean Hannity, Megan Meier, Clarence Dupnik, Lori Drew, Allen West, Harry Reid, Glenn Beck, Gabrielle Giffords, Tides Foundation, Aclu, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

Five years ago, a 47-year-old Missouri woman began a duplicitous on-line courtship through MySpace with a 13-year-old neighbor who once had been frien...

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Amanda Terkel

Media Matters Hires Leader Of 'Stop Beck' Movement To Ramp Up Campaign Against Fox News

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Beck, George Soros, Glenn Beck Fox News, Tides Foundation, StopBeck.Com, Media Matters, Fox News, Angelo Carusone, Stop Beck, Media Matters for America, Media News

WASHINGTON -- The battle between progressives and Fox News just got hotter. Liberal watchdog Media Matters has hired one of Glenn Beck's key nemeses, ...

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Sam Stein

CEO Targeted By Attempted Killer Urges Advertisers To Drop Glenn Beck

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Beck Advertisers, Tides Beck Violence, Tides Glenn Beck, Tides Foundation, Progressive Hunter, Fox News Ads, Beck Ads, Tides Ad, Glenn Beck, Media News

In an extraordinary move to nip the inflammatory commentary coming from Glenn Beck, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation (a frequent Beck targe...

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Glenn Beck, the NRA, and the Dangers of an Impolite Society

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Second Amendment, George Soros, National Rifle Association, Tides Foundation, Fox News, Gun Control, Glenn Beck, Byron Williams, U.S. Constitution, Newt Gingrich, Constitution, Politics News
Josh Horwitz

A disturbing new report is out today that demonstrates a clear link between armed violence and the contemptuous political rhetoric that seems to be the raison d'être for Fox News.

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"Progressive Hunter" Jailhouse Confession: How the Right-Wing Media and Glenn Beck's Chalkboard Drove Byron Williams to Plot Assassination

John Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fox News, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, George Soros, Byron Williams, Tides Foundation, Open Society Institute, Video, Media News
John Hamilton

Fifteen years after militia-movement-inspired bombers killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City federal building, right-wing domestic terror plots are a fact of life in America.

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Glenn Beck's Violent Words Harm America

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Amendment, Tides Foundation, California Highway Patrol, Dana Milbank, March on Washington, Nra, Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association, Ted Nugent, Martin Luther King, Media Matters, Sarah Palin, Jr., Glenn Beck, Washington Post, Byron Williams, Fox News Channel, Media News
Paul Helmke

Glenn Beck's recognition of the power and consequences of his words has not dampened his enthusiasm for injecting them with violence to hammer home his perspective.

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Glenn Beck's Incendiary Angst Is Dangerously Close to Having a Body Count

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Matters for America, Glenn Beck, Byron Williams, Tides Foundation, Rush Limbaugh, Media News
Eric Boehlert

We're going to see more attempts at vigilante violence during the Age of Obama simply because the right-wing media, lead by Beck, continue to gleefully stoke dangerous fires with relentlessly incendiary rhetoric.

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Thank You, Glenn Beck: The Sequel

Melissa Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Beck, Van Jones, Glenn Beck Van Jones, Tides Foundation, The Story of Stuff, Media News
Melissa Bradley

Tides would like to extend our thanks to Glenn Beck for helping to generate attention for "The Story of Stuff", one of the projects we proudly support -- though his assertions were totally bizarre.

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Humana Mailer Targets Elderly, Claims Medicare Benefits To Be Cut

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chief Medical Officer, Humana Health Insurance, Philip Painter, Humana Chief Medical Officer, Health Insurance, Humana Partner Program, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Medicare, Las Vegas, Humana Mailer, Humana Letter, Ace and Tj, The Story of Stuff, Tides Foundation, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, Lynn Harsh, Politics News
Dawn Teo

The letter enclosed in the mailer tries to convince Medicare recipients that their benefits could be cut if the current health insurance reform plans are enacted.

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Kennedy's Legacy: A Movement That Can Multitask

Melissa Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Carbon, Social Change, Conflict, Power, Momentum, Senator Ted Kennedy, Capital, Tides-Foundation, Politics News
Melissa Bradley

What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.

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The Momentum Conference in SF: Sharing What's Working

Bob Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tides Foundation, Activism, John Edwards, Momentum, Psychology, Messaging, Social Activism, Civil Rights, Politics News
Bob Harris

I'm sitting here at Momentum watching Alex Gibney, director of Taxi to the Dark Side, talking about waterboarding, Gitmo, and how America descended in...

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