As of December, the Federal Communications Commission requires bloggers to disclose any payments they receive for products they endorse. So this seems as good a time as any to reveal that the Antiplanner has negligently failed to ask any of the makers of the products mentioned in this blog to pay for the publicity.
As most readers know, the Antiplanner’s day job consists of working for the Cato Institute, a free-market think tank. But Cato doesn’t pay me to write this blog — the blog began before I started working for Cato — and Cato probably wouldn’t notice if I stopped writing it (and might even prefer if I posted to Cato’s own blog).
Some people have suggested that the Antiplanner has been influenced by donations to Cato from Exxon or other large oil companies. I have no knowledge of such donations — though I understand the vast majority of Cato’s income comes from individual contributors — but if anyone knows of any oil companies that want to support my work, please send them Cato’s way. I have always been willing to accept support from anyone willing to pay me to tell the truth.
Before Cato, I worked for the Thoreau Institute. This organization once received a couple of donations from the Scaife Foundation, a known “right-wing” charity, as well as one grant from the Koch Foundation. These grants were mostly to support the Antiplanner’s fellowships at the University of California (Berkeley) and to help start the American Dream Coalition. They came with no strings attached and the heads of these foundations never expressed any of their political ideas to me (unlike some liberal foundations that give to environmental groups but let those groups know in no uncertain terms just what political views they must endorse in order to retain funding).
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During the years I worked for Thoreau, most of its revenue came from user fees: consulting fees — mostly from environmental groups — speaker fees, and publication sales. While I have seen some organizations shape their programs to get grants, Thoreau only accepted grant money from foundations willing to fund programs that we were already committed to doing.
When many bloggers mention a book, they include a link to that book’s page on Amazon.com. What you might not know — and what should be revealed by the FCC rule — is that if you click on that link and buy the book, Amazon will often pay the blogger a finder’s fee. But the Antiplanner only buys books from Amazon if there is no less expensive source, and to find the least-expensive source I use bookfinder.com, which offers bloggers no finder’s fees. So that you can find the least-expensive source too, that is what I link to.
The Antiplanner probably doesn’t have enough readers to generate a lot of advertising, but even if it did, this blog would accept no advertising. These web pages are busy enough without a bunch of ads trying to distract you from the blog itself.
To tell the truth, I write this blog for myself as much as anyone. It is a valuable research and filing tool. When I find an interesting report, I’ll blog about it, and then later when I am looking for the report, I can just search this blog to find it. When I have some new idea, I can run it through this blog and get your responses. Many of the blog’s readers are kind enough to send me news stories and new research papers. If I have a conflict of interest, it is that I have to keep the blog interesting so that you, dear readers, will continue to read it and provide such feedback. For that feedback, I thank you.
The real question is how many poster here are being paid. I am not.
Some posters seem frequently post off topic material that seems more to be disruptive than to educate anyone to any view point.
Hey Highwayman, who pays you?
Thanks
JK
The Autoplanner: I have always been willing to accept support from anyone willing to pay me to tell the truth.
THWM: They’re half truths at best.
Also Mr.Karlock, no one pays me to comment here.
I just don’t like those that promote double standards.
Thanks for the disclosure, Antiplanner.
I ignore the ad hominem and guilty-by-association fallacies thrown at you. With this new FCC meddling, the constitutionality of which is dubious, hopefully the accusations will stop.
Frank wrote:
> With this new FCC meddling, the constitutionality of which is dubious,
I agree.
> hopefully the accusations will stop.
I doubt it.
Conspiracy theories, personal attacks and the ad hominem attacks are standard operating procedure for many (not all, but many) in the anti-highway/anti-suburban/anti-mobility/anti-auto industry.
Totally unrelated comment:
Frank, your name brings a smile to my face, for a reason that may amuse you. My late grandfather once had a cat at his place in rural Maryland (by the Chesapeake Bay) by the name of Frank. Why the name Frank? Because Frank was a stray and had lost his tail in some horrible accident before moving in with my grandfather, who felt that Frank always had a very frank expression on his face, in part because he lacked a tail to express his feelings and emotions.
C. P. Zilliacus said: Conspiracy theories, personal attacks and the ad hominem attacks are standard operating procedure for many (not all, but many) in the anti-highway/anti-suburban/anti-mobility/anti-auto industry.
THWM: Wow, now that’s a paranoid oxymoron!
I don’t see it
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prk166 said: I don’t see it.
THWM: That’s because, you don’t want to see it.
Yet some how having an anti-rail/anti-urban/anti-mobility/anti-transit agenda is just fine.
C.P. Zilliacus:
Conspiracy theories, personal attacks and the ad hominem attacks are standard operating procedure for many (not all, but many) in the anti-highway/anti-suburban/anti-mobility/anti-auto industry.
As Mr. Spock would say, please specify (provide examples and links).
I wish the anti-planner all the luck in raising funds of any kind for anywhere. I would still read this blog if it was sponsored by a company that extracted black goop for the bowels of the earth. Since someone posted a definition, here’s one:
“A highwayman was a robber who preyed on travelers, particularly one who traveled by horse…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highwayman
irandom said: I would still read this blog if it was sponsored by a company that extracted black goop for the bowels of the earth.
THWM: My computer along with many of the things that I own were made with black goop from the from the bowls of the earth. Now why are they paying the Autoplanner to promote prectionism?
irandom: A highwayman was a robber who preyed on travelers
THWM: That’s just it, I don’t rob people, though you want policy that does.
Highwayman, you need to stop making these unfounded charges. If you have any evidence that The Antiplanner receives money from the oil industry, you need to present it. If you don’t have any evidence, you need to STFU.
They have vested political interests, he promotes policy that protects their markets.
O’Toole’s a crook, but he’s not stupid.
You’ve got that job covered all too well.
Thanks Frank, Joseph Stalin would be very proud of you today!
Thanks for proving Godwin’s Law.
Godwin’s law is just a cop out.