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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">salon&nbsp;<a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/02/25/stossel/" style="line-height: 19.1875px;">http://www.salon.com/2000/02/25/stossel/</a></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Chitester Fund is a conservative foundation, sporting <b>John Fund of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Williams among others on its boards</b>. Text on the Chitester Fund Web site describes the organization’s mission: “We are particularly interested in illuminating the prerequisites of a free society — (with an) emphasis on projects that examine the role of government and explain the interrelationship of economic, personal and political freedom,” code for a closeted conservative group.</span></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Though Stossel’s special reports for ABC News are conservative, they’re also good journalism. He doesn’t pull any punches against Republican sacred cows from big business lobbyists to B-2 bombers. But “Stossel in the Classroom” crosses the line between edgy journalism and pure propaganda.</b></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The study guide section on robber barons, for example, (based on Stossel’s “Greed” special) doesn’t mention the word monopoly. In a “case study” on John D. Rockefeller, the word does pop up, but only to argue that oil tycoon Rockefeller wasn’t a monopolist. But at least Stossel takes the time to explain that, often, monopolies come to be not because of market failure, but because of government favors for business.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Another guide (accompanying Stossel’s “Scaring Ourselves to Death”) snidely attacks the government for changing dietary recommendations to emphasize fruits and vegetables over meat and dairy products. Ironically, most of the critics of the health scares Stossel debunks in his special are big believers in just those health recommendations. People like Bruce Ames, an internationally reknowned scientist and vocal critic of the Environmental Protection Agency believe that lower fat, higher fruit and vegetable diets fight cancer and other health problems, just like the government does. Here’s the last sentence of that guide: “Will headline hysteria and federal regulatory agencies continue to divorce public policy from reality?”</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Many, if not most, of the 35 to 40 footnotes accompanying each guide cite predictably conservative sources like the Heritage Foundation, the CATO Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Young Americas Foundation and the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages. They’re not exactly the sources a skeptical reader would find convincing.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Chitester board member and George Mason University professor Williams</b> is also a major on-air presence in two of the three Stossel specials sold by the organization, but he is only identified as an economist. Incidentally, Williams supervises the work of Thomas Rustici and Alan Koczela, the economics instructors who wrote the classroom materials for “Stossel in the Classroom” at George Mason. Rustici’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/rust.htm" target="new" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">George Mason bio</a>&nbsp;describes his participation in the Chitester project like this: “He is the editor and coauthor of a series of free market books for high school students that will accompany a video series by John Stossel of ABC.”</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The connections among Chitester, Stossel and ABC News and the level of cooperation involved in the project have been considerable. Stossel is a financial contributor to Chitester (he’s even been known to donate his hefty lecture fees to the organization) and a vice president at ABC News admits that he helped edit one of the study guides. Chitester is also the registered owner of the stossel.org, johnstossel.com and johnstossel.org domain names on the Internet. (johnstossel.org is unused, stossel.org links to the Chitester site and johnstossel.com gives you the choice of moving on to ABC, the Chitester Fund or the Web site of another charity Stossel is involved with.) ABC News gets a cut on all sales of Chitester’s sales of the series, but neither organization will say how big it is.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Given a week and dozens of phone calls and e-mails, Stossel wouldn’t explain himself and the study guide authors at George Mason University were “unavailable.”</b></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Williams, however, defends the project. “The study guides just elaborate on some of the economic principles in Stossel’s shows in as truthful a fashion as possible,” he argued, also stating that they weren’t propagandistic. But when presented with specific examples from the text he admitted there were problems. For instance, where the authors write, “Another common myth asserts that a nation’s wealth depends on labor unions. Unions do not create wealth.” Williams concedes, “That might be misleading language.” Williams is right — anyone who has ever covered<b> unions knows that their premise is that they redistribute wealth from the owners and managers of companies to the workers, not that the union “creates” wealth.</b></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">And Williams sees no problem with serving both as a source for Stossel and a promoter of his work. Further, Williams argues that just because an ABC News logo appears on the cover of study guides written by the GMU economics instructors, nobody would assume that ABC News had anything to do with the content — even though the authors’ names don’t appear until the inside cover at the back of the book.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Richard Wald, senior vice president of editorial quality at ABC News, originally signed off on the deal. Wald readily admitted that he had read only one of the three study guides. He said he was unaware of the Chitester Funds’ conservative economic agenda, that Stossel gave them money and that Williams was on the fund’s board.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When asked about the fact that the authors’ names don’t appear until the end of the book, Wald finally admitted, “Maybe it is a bad idea, maybe we should have drawn a better line.”</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Bob Chitester</b>, founder and president of the Chitester Fund, believes the matter boils down to a business misunderstanding. “There was some confusion,” he says, “our written agreement did not speak to any editorial role for ABC, but now we’ve adjusted our process.”</p><div class="articleContent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 18px;"><div class="toggle-group target hideOnInit" data-toggle-group="story-627902" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; opacity: 1;"><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Chitester is a combative interview subject, starting each answer with “You’re a liar!” or “That’s not true, you’re making it up.” Any questions about the ethics of this deal are “just made up,” too, he said.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because the Los Angeles Times found itself in a similar situation last fall when it agreed to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.salon.com/media/col/elde/1999/12/21/timesprobe/index.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">share revenues from its Sunday magazine with Staples Center,</a>&nbsp;the subject of a special issue.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Far less money changed hands in the ABC News-Stossel deal, but in some respects, the ABC deal is more ominous. No one alleges that the Los Angeles Times ever allowed Staples Center to control the content that was published under its logo. ABC News did. And unlike the one-time Los Angeles Times-Staples alliance, <font color="#ff0000">ABC News’ complicated relationship with Chitester Fund is ongoing.</font></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In the end, it may not be ethics that determines the fate of “Stossel in the Classroom.” The program has apparently been unpopular with instructors. Chitester said that the student guides are being rewritten in response to negative feedback from the teachers who were using them. “There are some sections where the authors went beyond economics, so they have to change.”</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As Stossel himself said in an interview a few years ago, “All we have in the news is our reputation. People have a hundred choices for news now.”</p></div><a class="toggle-group toggleOnScroll trigger remember refreshAds gaTrackPageEvent on" data-toggle-group="story-627902" data-delay="15" href="http://www.salon.com/2000/02/25/stossel/" id="yui_3_11_0_11_1387560255856_947" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;" /></div><div class="writerMeta" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; font-style: italic; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 18px;"><a title="David Mastio" href="http://www.salon.com/writer/david_mastio/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;" /><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: none; line-height: 20px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Mastio is a Washington correspondent for The Detroit News and a contributing editor to USA TODAY. 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</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;<b>Palmer R. Chitester Fund</b>&nbsp;is a defunct&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">libertarian</a>-leaning Pennsylvania&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_corporation" title="Nonprofit corporation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">nonprofit corporation</a>&nbsp;based in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie,Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Erie, Pennsylvania</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Fund had three main initiatives:</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Free To Choose Media, which produces television programs and videos making classical liberal economic and political ideas accessible to a popular audience</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">izzit.org,which produces media for children, sometimes adapting television broadcasts for a school audience<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Palmer R. Chitester Fund was founded by Bob Chitester, using start-up money provided by a number of charitable sources and named in honor of his father. At the time, Bob Chitester was the general manager of two public broadcasters in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie,Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Erie, Pennsylvania</a>: the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" title="Public Broadcasting Service" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PBS</a>&nbsp;channel&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQLN(TV)" title="WQLN (TV)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WQLN-TV</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio" title="National Public Radio" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NPR</a>&nbsp;station&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQLN-FM" title="WQLN-FM" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WQLN-FM</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">History</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#izzit.org" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">izzit.org</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;" /><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The origins of the foundation lay in PBS's broadcast of&nbsp;<i>The Age of Uncertainty</i>&nbsp;(1975), a 13-part&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">BBC</a>&nbsp;series produced by liberal economist&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Kenneth Galbraith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-heartland1_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-heartland1-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;The chairman of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting" title="Corporation for Public Broadcasting" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Corporation for Public Broadcasting</a>&nbsp;was a classical liberal economist,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.Allen_Wallis" title="W. Allen Wallis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">W. Allen Wallis</a>, who had met Chitester in 1975 when he participated in a symposium on "Technology and Society" arranged by Chitester in Erie and learned that Chitester shared his classical liberal economic views.<sup id="cite_ref-heartland1_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-heartland1-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;Wallis and Chitester both believed that PBS should produce a classical liberal response to&nbsp;<i>The Age of Uncertainty</i>. Wallis therefore introduced Chitester to his old friend&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Milton Friedman</a>&nbsp;in early 1977 (shortly after Friedman won the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences" title="Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-heartland1_4-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-heartland1-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;As a result, Chitester produced a 10-part PBS series entitled&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_to_Choose" title="Free to Choose" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Free to Choose</a></i>, which first aired in early 1980. Friedman also co-authored a book with his wife&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Friedman" title="Rose Friedman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rose Friedman</a>&nbsp;to accompany the television series. This book spent 5 weeks at the top of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_Times_Non-Fiction_Best_Sellers" title="List of New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>New York Times</i>&nbsp;Non-Fiction Best Sellers List</a>&nbsp;in 1980.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">It was in the context of producing the&nbsp;<i>Free to Choose</i>&nbsp;series that Chitester first organized Free to Choose Media, which became a part of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund. Free To Choose Media continues to produce media describing classical liberal economic ideas to a mass audience. Chitester and Free To Choose Media produced a documentary detailing the life of Milton Friedman, entitled&nbsp;<i>The Power of Choice</i>, which aired on PBS in 2007. Another Free To Choose Media production, entitled&nbsp;<i>The Ultimate Resource</i>&nbsp;(named after the 1981 book&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource" title="The Ultimate Resource" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Ultimate Resource</a></i>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lincoln_Simon" title="Julian Lincoln Simon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Julian Lincoln Simon</a>) also aired on PBS in 2007. The Ultimate resources has won a number of distinguished awards and continues to run on HDNet. Beginning in 1999, the Palmer R. Chitester Fund provided funding to&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_News" title="ABC News" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ABC News</a>&nbsp;reporter&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel" title="John Stossel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Stossel</a>&nbsp;for his "Stossel in the Classroom" program.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="izzit.org">izzit.org</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: izzit.org" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The organization currently known as izzit.org was initially called In the Classroom Media.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;Izzit.org provides teachers with materials on current events and other topics for in-classroom use. Izzit.org has used celebrities (e.g.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Carey" title="Drew Carey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Drew Carey</a>) in some of its productions.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Idea Channel no longer markets the documentaries produced by Free To Choose Media. Much of the Palmer R. 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Chitester Fund</b>&nbsp;is a defunct&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">libertarian</a>-leaning Pennsylvania&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_corporation" title="Nonprofit corporation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">nonprofit corporation</a>&nbsp;based in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie,Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Erie, Pennsylvania</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Fund had three main initiatives:</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Free To Choose Media, which produces television programs and videos making classical liberal economic and political ideas accessible to a popular audience</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">izzit.org,which produces media for children, sometimes adapting television broadcasts for a school audience<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Palmer R. Chitester Fund was founded by Bob Chitester, using start-up money provided by a number of charitable sources and named in honor of his father. At the time, Bob Chitester was the general manager of two public broadcasters in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie,Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Erie, Pennsylvania</a>: the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" title="Public Broadcasting Service" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PBS</a>&nbsp;channel&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQLN(TV)" title="WQLN (TV)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WQLN-TV</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio" title="National Public Radio" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NPR</a>&nbsp;station&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQLN-FM" title="WQLN-FM" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WQLN-FM</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 11px;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">History</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#izzit.org" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">izzit.org</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;" /><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The origins of the foundation lay in PBS's broadcast of&nbsp;<i>The Age of Uncertainty</i>&nbsp;(1975), a 13-part&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">BBC</a>&nbsp;series produced by liberal economist&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Kenneth Galbraith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-heartland1_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-heartland1-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;The chairman of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting" title="Corporation for Public Broadcasting" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Corporation for Public Broadcasting</a>&nbsp;was a classical liberal economist,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.Allen_Wallis" title="W. Allen Wallis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">W. Allen Wallis</a>, who had met Chitester in 1975 when he participated in a symposium on "Technology and Society" arranged by Chitester in Erie and learned that Chitester shared his classical liberal economic views.<sup id="cite_ref-heartland1_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-heartland1-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;Wallis and Chitester both believed that PBS should produce a classical liberal response to&nbsp;<i>The Age of Uncertainty</i>. Wallis therefore introduced Chitester to his old friend&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Milton Friedman</a>&nbsp;in early 1977 (shortly after Friedman won the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences" title="Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-heartland1_4-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-heartland1-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;As a result, Chitester produced a 10-part PBS series entitled&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_to_Choose" title="Free to Choose" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Free to Choose</a></i>, which first aired in early 1980. Friedman also co-authored a book with his wife&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Friedman" title="Rose Friedman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rose Friedman</a>&nbsp;to accompany the television series. This book spent 5 weeks at the top of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_Times_Non-Fiction_Best_Sellers" title="List of New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>New York Times</i>&nbsp;Non-Fiction Best Sellers List</a>&nbsp;in 1980.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">It was in the context of producing the&nbsp;<i>Free to Choose</i>&nbsp;series that Chitester first organized Free to Choose Media, which became a part of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund. Free To Choose Media continues to produce media describing classical liberal economic ideas to a mass audience. Chitester and Free To Choose Media produced a documentary detailing the life of Milton Friedman, entitled&nbsp;<i>The Power of Choice</i>, which aired on PBS in 2007. Another Free To Choose Media production, entitled&nbsp;<i>The Ultimate Resource</i>&nbsp;(named after the 1981 book&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource" title="The Ultimate Resource" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Ultimate Resource</a></i>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lincoln_Simon" title="Julian Lincoln Simon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Julian Lincoln Simon</a>) also aired on PBS in 2007. The Ultimate resources has won a number of distinguished awards and continues to run on HDNet. Beginning in 1999, the Palmer R. Chitester Fund provided funding to&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_News" title="ABC News" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ABC News</a>&nbsp;reporter&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel" title="John Stossel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Stossel</a>&nbsp;for his "Stossel in the Classroom" program.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="izzit.org">izzit.org</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: izzit.org" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The organization currently known as izzit.org was initially called In the Classroom Media.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;Izzit.org provides teachers with materials on current events and other topics for in-classroom use. Izzit.org has used celebrities (e.g.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Carey" title="Drew Carey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Drew Carey</a>) in some of its productions.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Idea Channel no longer markets the documentaries produced by Free To Choose Media. Much of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund archival footage now appears on YouTube.</p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><div class="reflist" style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_R.Chitester_Fund#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-508414_ITM" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"One Eye To Protecting The Brand"</a>.&nbsp;<i>Entertainment Marketing Letter</i>. 01-AUG 1999<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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