The DCI Group [1], which is described by O'Dwyers PR Daily as a "brass-knuckled Republican PR firm", has sold the Tech Central Station [2] (TCS) 'news' website to the editor of the site, Nick Schultz [3]. In a feature on TCS published in Washington Monthly in December 2003, Nick Confessore wrote [4] of TCS that "it looks less like a think-tank-cum-magazine than a kind of lobbying practice." TCS sponsors have included ExxonMobil [5], General Motors Corporation [6], McDonald's [7] and Microsoft [8]. Prior to joining TCS, Schultze was the Politics Editor for FOXNews.com, the website of the Fox News [9] Channel. He has also worked as a policy analyst with Empower America [10], a think tank [11] that was co-chaired by former Secretary of Education and author William Bennett [12] and former New York Congressman Jack Kemp [13]. (In July 2004 Empower America merged with Citizens for a Sound Economy [14] to form FreedomWorks [15]).
Links:
[1] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DCI_Group
[2] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station
[3] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nick_Schultz
[4] http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.confessore.html
[5] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil
[6] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=General_Motors_Corporation
[7] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=McDonald
[8] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Microsoft
[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Empower_America
[11] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=think_tank
[12] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Bennett
[13] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Kemp
[14] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy
[15] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FreedomWorks
