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The write stuff: U.S. serial print culture from conservatives out to neo-Nazis
Library Trends, Wntr, 2008 by Chip Berlet
Some of the larger organizations maintain two serials, one from the political action arm and one from the nonprofit foundation arm. An example is National Right to Work, the newsletter of the National Right to Work Committee, and its sister, Foundation Action, the newsletter of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Phyllis Schlafly, who founded the Eagle Forum, circulates the Phyllis Schlafly Report, but also publishes a topical serial, Education Reporter, that describes itself as "the newspaper of Education Rights" that "supports parents' rights in education, as well as reports what's happening in education across the country" (Eagle Forum, 2007). Reed Irvine, head of Accuracy in Media edits the AIM Report newsletter.
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Publications range from the large circulation America's 1st Freedom, official journal of the National Rifle Association; to the smaller magazine The Federalist Paper for the Federalist Society of conservative lawyers and law students; to secretive short-run missives like the Council for National Policy's The Five Minute Report (red, white, and blue with black text and gold ink title). Often overlooked as a significant salvo in the culture wars was the Family Protection Report, a newsletter published starting in the late 1970s by the predecessor organization to Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation and edited by Connaught "Connie" Marshner, a skillful antifeminist organizer. An influential secular conservative magazine in the post-WWII period was Conservative Digest. Direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie started Conservative Digest in 1975 as part of his project of putting together a new right electoral coalition. For ten years Viguerie published the magazine before turning over the reins in October 1985 to Colorado businessman William Kennedy.
The new direction for the publication was clearly enunciated when it began to run articles not only by writers such as Marshner, but also by Patrick J. Buchanan, and William E Hoar, a frequent contributor to John Birch Society serials. Brought onboard as a senior editor was John Rees, also a contributor to JBS serials, and a researcher for the Western Goals Foundation run by JBS leader Congressman Larry McDonald. In addition to Rees and Hoar, other senior editors were Howard Phillips, Otto Scott, Cynthia V. Ward, and Weyrich. Reed Larson of the National Right to Work Committee was named a contributing editor, along with a long and broad list of secular and religious right luminaries including Jerry Falwell, George Gilder, Beverly LaHaye, Tim LaHaye, Gary North, Hans F. Sennholz, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Rousas John Rushdoony, and Phyllis Schlafly. The format went from a standard magazine to the size of Readers Digest, complete with a knockoff of the Digest's table of contents on the cover. In December 1988, the magazine again changed hands, with the new publishers consisting of a triad: Larry Abraham, Robert H. Krieble, and Harry D. Schultz. Kreible dropped off after one issue. At this time, Weyrich was the lone senior editor with Hoar as executive editor.
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