It Was John Wayne’s Political Club. Now It’s Spending Millions on Online Influence – The Markup

It was John Wayne’s political club. Now it’s spending millions on online influence

In summary The Lincoln Media Foundation has spent big to push ‘local’ conservative messaging A conservative organization with decades of influence in California has quietly turned attention, and millions of dollars, to a national initiative of right-leaning news operations, records show.  The Lincoln Club was established in the early 1960s by a group of California business leaders. Since then, it’s been a quiet but formidable force in state and …

It was John Wayne’s political club. Now it’s spending millions on online influence – The Markup

The Lincoln Media Foundation has spent big to push ‘local’ conservative messaging Photo via iStock A conservative organization with decades of influence in California has quietly turned attention, and millions of dollars, to a national initiative of right-leaning news operations, records show.  The Lincoln Club was established in the early 1960s by a group of California business leaders. Since then, it’s been a quiet but formidable force in sta…