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Centro de periodismo basado en web dedicado al Journolobbying, con sede en Washington y Bruselas. Las iniciales TCS significan asimismo Technology, Commerce, Society. Fue creada por la agencia de PR DCI Group, y el web TCS Daily estaba a nombre de James K. Glassman, del American Enterprise Institute.

Furiosamente contrario a la legislación tanto medioambiental como social, el tono de TCS Daily era más parecido al de Fox News y al de los radiofonistas energúmenos del medio oeste americano que al estándar del negacionismo, que generalmente persigue una apariencia científica.

En 2006, los patrocinadores retiraron su apoyo, y la cabecera fue adquirida por su editor Nick Schulz. Glassman abandonó entonces el AEI para dirigir la revista The American. Nick Schulz trasladó la web también a The American, y poco después sustituyó a Glassman en la dirección, desactivando Tech Central Station.

La sede en Bruselas ha organizado debates en el Parlamento Europeo bajo el título “The Hayek Series: A Forum for Economic Freedom”.

Fundador:

Anthony Fisher

Fundador de la Atlas Economic Research Foundation
DCI Group (Agencia de PR)

Presidente:

James K. Glassman

Año de fundación:

2000

Editor:

Nick Schulz (Washington)
Craig Winneker (TCS Europe, Bruselas)

Agencias PR

DCI Group

Creadora del clip de YouTube Al Gore’s Penguin Army, coincidiendo con el estreno de la película-documental “Una Verdad Incómoda”

Medialink Worldwide

Producción del video Global Warming and Hurricanes: All Hot Air? y de su promoción a la prensa via Video News Release. Colaboración de los meteorólogos William Gray y James J. O’Brien

Patrocinadores

American Beverage Association
AT&T
ExxonMobil: $95,000 (2003) for climate change support
Freddie Mac
General Motors Corporation
Gilead Sciences
McDonalds
Merck
Microsoft
Nasdaq
PhRMA
The Coca-Cola Company

Colaboradores

Ronald Bailey (Reason Foundation)
Sallie Baliunas
Timothy Ball
Robert Balling
Bob Carter
Michael  Fumento
Christopher Horner
Hans H.J. Labohm
David Legates
Richard Lindzen
Patrick Michaels
Steven Milloy
Kendra Okonski

Sustainable Development Network

Paul Reiter
Willie Soon
Roy Spencer
George Taylor

Referencias

1. Curtis A. Moore – A Package for Copenhagen: Existing Authorities in the United States for Responding to Global Warming – Curtis A. Moore – November 2009 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://healthandcleanair.org/newsletters/HCA_fall09.pdf
   “The broadcast public relations firm Medialink Worldwide produces a video news release (VNR) titled, “Global Warming and Hurricanes: All Hot Air?” Medialink was hired to make the VNR by Tech Central Station, a project of the Republican lobbying and PR firm DCI Group. ExxonMobil, a client of the DCI group, gave Tech Central Science Foundation $95,000 in 2003 and specified that those funds be used for “climate change support.” The VNR features meteorologists Dr. William Gray and Dr. James J. O’Brien who deny there’s a link between global warming and hurricane intensity … He does not disclose that the report was produced by a PR firm that was paid by an organization funded by ExxonMobil. [Center for Media and Democracy, 11/14/2006; Democracy Now!, 11/14/2006; San Francisco Chronicle, 11/15/2006].”
2. Jim Motavalli – Climate Counterattack. For Global Warming Skeptics, U.S. Senate Committees are Bully Pulpits – eMagazine – http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3247
   “Among TCS’ sponsors, according to its website, are the American Beverage Association, ExxonMobil, Freddie Mac, General Motors Corporation, Gilead Sciences, McDonalds and Merck. TCS “believe[s] strongly in the power of free markets, open societies and individual human ingenuity to raise living standards and improve lives.”
3. Corporate Europe Observatory – Covert industry funding fuels the expansion of radical rightwing EU think tanks – Corporate Europe – 01/07/2005 – http://archive.corporateeurope.org/stockholmnetwork.html
   “In 1993, the Centre for the New Europe (CNE) was the first of this particular brand of think tanks to open its Brussels office. Others soon followed, including the European Enterprise Institute, Institut Economique Molinari, Institut Thomas More and affiliates of US think tanks, the International Council for Capital Formation and Tech Central Station Europe.”
4. Steven F. Hayward (Tech Central Station) – Don’t Worry, Be Happy – American Enterprise Institute – 22/04/2004 – Tech Central Station – http://www.aei.org/article/20355
   “The United States has been so successful in improving environmental quality in recent years that we should be celebrating, not despairing.”
5. Nick Schulz – Researchers question key global-warming study – USA Today – 28/10/2003 – Editor of TechCentralStation.com, a science, technology and public policy Web site – http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-10-28-schulz_x.htm
   “An important new paper in the journal Energy & Environment upsets a key scientific claim about climate change. If it withstands scrutiny, the collective scientific understanding of recent global warming might need an overhaul.”
6. Sourcewatch – Tech Central Station – Sourcewatch – 29/01/2009  – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station
   “TCS describes itself as a web site “where free markets meet technology”. TCS publishes daily original commentary, news and analysis, focused on economics, business, foreign affairs, technology, science, the environment, trade, and culture. Some contributors are associated with conservative think tanks including International Policy Network(IPN), the Sustainable Development Network (SDN), the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and the Scientific Alliance.”
7. Corporate Europe Observatory – Brussels: the EU quarter. Explore the corporate lobbying paradise – Corporate Europe – 01/07/2005 – http://archive.corporateeurope.org/docs/lobbycracy/lobbyplanet.pdf
   “The no less extreme TechCentralStation is also working its way into the mainstream, for instance by co-organising conferences with the Christian-Democrat parliamentary group (PPE) in the European Parliament. TechCentralStation.be is the Brussels-based subsidiary of a US website, sponsored by corporations like Exxon, McDonalds and Microsoft. It features columns written by US and European hard-line rightwingers, denouncing any piece of progressive legislation under discussion.”
8. Corporate Europe Observatory – Covert industry funding fuels the expansion of radical rightwing EU think tanks – Corporate Europe – 01/07/2005 – http://archive.corporateeurope.org/stockholmnetwork.html
   “TechCentralStation.be is the Brussels-based subsidiary of the Washington D.C. based JournoLobbyists website TechCentralStation.com which is published and funded by Republican lobbying firm DCI Group and its clients, including corporations like Exxon, McDonalds and Microsoft. “Journolobbying” is a PR tactic that aims to “dominate the entire intellectual environment in which officials make policy decisions”.[45] TCS Europe, whose editor is former European Voice journalist Craig Winneker, runs a website and features columns written by European and US hardline rightwingers. It has coorganised conferences with the ChristianDemocrat parliamentary group (PPE) in the European Parliament. TechCentralStation.be organises debates under the title “The Hayek Series: A Forum for Economic Freedom”.[46]”
9. Ronald Bailey – Confessions of an Alleged ExxonMobil Whore – Reason Magazine – 22/09/2006 – http://reason.com/archives/2006/09/22/confessions-of-an-alleged-exxo
   “As further disclosure, I have worked with various organizations that I am told have also received grants from ExxonMobil, including CEI and the online publication TCSDaily (formerly TechCentralStation). At no time did anyone at those organizations ask me to change any of my reporting on global warming science or policy (or any other reporting on other topics for that matter). Back in the early 1990s, someone (whose name I have long forgotten) at Exxon asked me to write an article on global warming for the company’s in-house magazine for $5,000. I absolutely refused. Finally, with regard to disclosure, I should mention that I own 50 shares of ExxonMobil that I bought on the advice of my stockbroker wife in October 2002 for $34.53 per share. I am happy to report that her advice was sound–those shares are going for about $64.00 today.”
10. Corporate Europe Observatory – Brussels: the EU quarter. Explore the corporate lobbying paradise – Corporate Europe – 01/07/2005 – http://archive.corporateeurope.org/docs/lobbycracy/lobbyplanet.pdf
    “TechCentral- Station, an aggressive US journo-lobbying website funded by companies like Microsoft, Exxon and McDonalds. The website http://www.Tech CentralStation.be is full of the kind of furious attacks on environmental and social legislation that are more commonly associated with radio talkshows from the US mid-west.”
11. Kevin Grandia – ABC News: Gore spoof video linked to Republican/Exxon Spinster – Desmogblog – 04/08/2006 – http://www.desmogblog.com/abc-news-gore-spoof-video-linked-to-republican-exxon-spinster
    “ABC news is reporting that a popular YouTube.com video mocking Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, first purported to be created by a 29-year old, was actually created by the PR firm, DCI Group. ABC also rightly reports that the infamous climate change “skeptic” funder ExxonMobil is a DCI client. Coincidently, the DCI group  is responsible for the creation of “Tech Central Station,” a forum for climate change deniers that just so happens to have received funding directly from Exxon for so-called “climate change support.” Exxon denies they had anyting to do with the video and ABC reports a DCI representative as stating: “We do not disclose the names of our clients, nor do we discuss the work we do on behalf of our clients.”
12. Ross Gelbspan – Former tobacco spin-doctor plays cruel climate change hoax – Desmogblog – 15/11/2006  – http://www.desmogblog.com/former-tobacco-spin-doctor-plays-cruel-climate-change-hoax
    “Tech Central Station is a climate change denial organ, owned and operated by DCI Group, a Washintgon PR/lobby company. You may remember DCI was recently ousted by the Wall Street Journal as the producers of an Al Gore spoof video posted on YouTube under the guise of an young amatuer video producer. Oh, and would it surprise you if I told you that the current CEO of the DCI Group, Doug Goodyear, was also heavily involved as a PR consultant in RJ Reynold’s efforts to manufacture a grassroots campaign against tougher tobacco laws.”
13. TCS Daily – Wikipedia – 03/12/2009 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCS_Daily
    “In 2006, it was sold to Nick Schulz, who had been its editor since 2001.[1] Before the sale, it was “hosted” by James K. Glassman, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and syndicated columnist. In 2006, he left TCS to become editor of The American; Schulz, while continuing to operate TCS, followed Glassman to The American and soon replaced him as that magazine’s editor.”
14. Kevin Grandia – Sponsors pull plug on Tech Central Station – Desmogblog – 21/11/2006 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sponsors-pull-plug-on-tech-central-station
    “According to the Nov. 1, ’06 edition of O’Dwyers Weekly PR insider newsletter (of which DeSmog is a big fan), the “DCI Group, a brass knuckled Republican PR firm in Washington, has sold its TCSDaily online journal to editor Nick Schulz. According to the TCS, “previous sponsorship agreements have expired” and that “updates about the transition in owenership will soon be available.” TCS recieved corporate funding from ExxonMobil and General Motors in the past. It would be very interesting to know which TCS sponsors “expired” their funding.”
15. Wiki – Tech Central Station – Sourcewatch – 29/01/2009 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station
    “Paul Georgia writes on climate change issues, but gets basic physics wrong, indicating that either Tech Central Station’s editors do not know basic science or that they do not review submitted pieces. Further lack of focus on scientific principles (as opposed to dogmatic or metaphysical ones) is evidenced by articles promoting the doctrine of Intelligent design.”