Arizona State U. Has Paid More Than $100,000 to an Anti-Trump News Site
“about half of the website’s coverage of President Trump is negative with little to no positive stories”
The school claims this is not about politics which seems… laughable.
The College Fix reports:
Arizona State U. shells out $125,000 to anti-Trump news site
Arizona State University is a regular financial contributor to a news site that is heavily anti-Trump and biased against the pro-life point of view.
The taxpayer-funded university has paid The Conversation at least $125,000 in membership fees according to records obtained by The College Fix via a public records request. The university gave the website $40,000 in both 2023 and 2024 and another $45,000 in 2025. This is the normal membership fee, as previously determined by The Fix.
The Conversation, which promises “academic rigor” with “journalistic flair,” has a history of imbalanced coverage. Prior research from The Fix found about half of the website’s coverage of President Trump is negative with little to no positive stories.
Nearly all the publication’s stories about abortion are from a pro-choice point of view, as The Fix previously reported. The decade-old publication receives around $2 million per year from public universities and other fees from private colleges and other supporters.
The payments ensure articles authored by Arizona State professors are published. Among these include stories about “white nationalism” and why “white people” are “bother[ed]” by Mexican flags flying at immigration protests.
Still, the university says the partnership is not about advancing political ideology.
“Additionally, and to clarify, support for The Conversation is limited to enabling ASU scholars to share peer-reviewed, evidence-based research in an editorially independent forum, not to advance any political ideology,” the university told The Fix when it provided the documents.
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The answer from”the Conversation” does not make sense. Schools pay for subscriptions to peer-reviewed jurnals and those subscriptions are not cheap. If Professor A has published an article in a peer-reviewed journal, it should be referenced on the school’s website and on the professional organization’s website. If it is really interesting, then some magazine with advertisers and subscriptions, or a website, should pick it up.
Lawsuit time.
Pulling Federal funding time.
It seems like Arizona is infected with stage 4 cancerous liberalism. Not fixing it means certain demise.