{"id":17531,"date":"2024-04-02T12:48:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/founder-of-soros-funded-propaganda-news-network-has-visited-bidens-white-house-nearly-20-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:48:44","slug":"founder-of-soros-funded-propaganda-news-network-has-visited-bidens-white-house-nearly-20-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/founder-of-soros-funded-propaganda-news-network-has-visited-bidens-white-house-nearly-20-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Soros-funded \u2018propaganda\u2019 news network has visited Biden\u2019s White House nearly 20 times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A longtime Democratic political operative behind a network of left-leaning media organizations masquerading as \u2018independent\u2019 local news outlets has maintained access to the upper echelons of\u00a0President Biden\u2019s\u00a0White House.<\/p>\n

Tara McGowan, the founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom, has visited the Biden White House nearly 20 times, a Fox News Digital review found.<\/p>\n

McGowan, CEO and founder of Courier Newsroom\u2019s parent, Good Information Inc., participated in several one-on-one meetings with top White House aides. For example, McGowan met with Jordan Finkelstein, who was serving as a chief of staff to one of President Biden\u2019s senior advisers, at least six times between October 2022 and October 2023.<\/p>\n

Another top aide who was listed on the visitor logs for McGowan\u2019s White House visits was Patrick Stevenson. Stevenson\u2019s LinkedIn page reveals he is the \u2018Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Digital Strategy.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stevenson\u2019s role in helping lead the White House\u2019s digital strategy could raise questions about coordination between McGowan\u2019s network of media outlets and the White House due to Courier Newsroom\u2019s business model revolving around online engagement and messaging on social media.<\/p>\n

Two other top White House aides who McGowan met with were Madeline Strasser, who previously served as an adviser to then-White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, and Nina Srivastava, who also served as an adviser to Klain. The pair of Klain advisers met with McGowan several times, according to the visitor logs between April 2022 and August 2022.<\/p>\n

McGowan\u2019s Instagram account also shows a picture of her alongside President Biden and first lady Jill Biden in front of a Christmas tree, but Fox News Digital could not confirm the date or year of the picture.<\/p>\n

McGowan, who worked on former\u00a0President Obama\u2019s\u00a0re-election campaign and later for Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC that backed Hillary Clinton\u2019s failed 2016 presidential candidacy, launched Good Information Inc., in 2021 to counter \u2018fake news\u2019 and disinformation.<\/p>\n

As part of its operations, Good Information acquired Courier Newsroom, which McGowan also founded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McGowan\u2019s access to Biden\u2019s White House appeared to pay off for her operation when Courier Newsroom landed an exclusive interview with the president late last year.<\/p>\n

\u2018The White House invited COURIER for an exclusive interview with the President backstage after his rally at the Belvidere Stellantis auto plant in Illinois this fall,\u2019 Courier wrote in its year-end report. \u2018One of our national social correspondents got to talk with the President about jobs and workers, sharing exclusive video footage with our audiences across TikTok, Instagram, X, and other channels.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Courier News interview with Biden appears to have occurred on Nov. 9 and was posted on TikTok on Nov. 13. White House visitor logs show that McGowan\u2019s second of two White House visits with Stevenson, the top digital White House adviser, occurred one day after the interview was posted on TikTok.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The Biden Administration doesn\u2019t get enough credit for how deeply and strategically they have begun to embrace new models of media, journalism, and social influencers to get their message across to audiences that are no longer reached by the traditional press corps,\u2019 the report states.<\/p>\n

Courier Newsroom also undertook a seven-figure ad campaign to boost Democratic politicians during the 2020 elections, and some of its news pieces mirrored the politicians\u2019 own press releases, the\u00a0Washington\u00a0Free Beacon previously reported.<\/p>\n

At the time, Courier Newsroom had digital outlets and staffed them with reporters in battleground states such as Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Last summer,\u00a0Courier was beefing up its infrastructure ahead of the 2024 elections by launching additional newsrooms in Nevada, Texas and New Hampshire, according to an Axios report.<\/p>\n

The move brought the total number of newsrooms to 11 nationwide, with each newsroom having its own website for the state where it is located.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Gabby Deutch, who the Washington Post described as \u2018the Washington correspondent for NewsGuard, a New York-based nonpartisan organization that reviews news sites to combat misinformation,\u2019 penned an op-ed criticizing Courier Newsroom as a \u2018political operation\u2019 and argued it is \u2018exploiting the widespread loss of local journalism to create and disseminate something we really don\u2019t need: hyperlocal partisan propaganda.\u2019<\/p>\n

The organization, meanwhile, has received millions of dollars in funding from liberal mega-donors. The\u00a0George Soros-bankrolled\u00a0Open Society Foundations is one such institution that has provided vast amounts of cash to its operations.<\/p>\n

According to a search of its grant database, the Fund for Policy Reform, one of the nonprofits in the Soros network, provided Courier Newsroom with three grants totaling $5 million in 2021 and 2022 to \u2018support its non-partisan journalism, which aims to further the common good and general welfare of U.S. communities by providing access to information.\u2019<\/p>\n

Open Society Foundations stood by their past financial support of Courier Newsroom, calling it \u2018values-driven journalism.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Open Society is proud to be among several funders who support Courier Newsroom, which is responding to the disappearance of so many trusted local news organizations across the United States to provide quality, local, values-driven journalism and to meet readers where they are \u2014 online,\u2019 an Open Society Foundations spokesperson told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

One of the grants was earmarked for supporting \u2018journalism on democracy and voting rights issues,\u2019 according to the database.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, another left-wing mega-donor, has also provided Courier Newsroom with significant funding, according to reports.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re \u2018proud to have restored White House press briefings and to engage with a wide range of media,\u2019 White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital, ignoring an inquiry about the nature of the meetings.<\/p>\n

McGowan\u2019s Good Information Inc. did not respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment on her access to Biden\u2019s administration and the nature of her White House visits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A longtime Democratic political operative behind a network of left-leaning media organizations masquerading as \u2018independent\u2019 local news outlets has maintained access to the upper echelons of\u00a0President Biden\u2019s\u00a0White House. Tara McGowan, the founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom, has visited the Biden White House nearly 20 times, a Fox News Digital review found. McGowan, CEO and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}