The Pro-Trump Money Pushing Libertarian 'Young Voices' on British TV
During a recent GB News interview, commentator Jack Rowlett lambasted Keir Starmer's Government for its apparent "lack of vision".
He told Tom Harwood that the new Government was "all about tax rises...smoking bans, and taking away people's freedom, rather than any positive vision".
Rowlett may seem like an independent voice. However, he is in reality one of a new group of young right-wing commentators appearing on TV news channels, who have been handpicked and primed to deliver soundbites by a talent agency that received funding from American pro-Trump foundations.
Rowlett, like several others, is backed by Young Voices, a "nonprofit talent agency for rising freethinkers in public policy" that operates in the US, UK and the EU and promotes the libertarian cause of "free speech, property rights, the rule of law, free trade of goods and labour, and low taxation and regulation".
The emergence of a talent agency to help deliver right-wing views to the masses is, what one former advertising executive described as a "completely new phenomenon", and a graduation from traditional attempts to influence opinion and policy through lobbying and PR.
"Young Voices, as a talent agency specifically for right-wing talent, is a worrying new development in the media world", a former EMEA marketing director at Saatchi & Saatchi, who declined to be named, told Byline Times.
On its website, Young Voices promises its members "media training and placement services" and details how its team of "PR professionals edits and places op-eds, schedules broadcast interview opportunities, and connects our best writers to mentorship and employment opportunities".
Young Voices, the website claims, has 102 current contributors who, in 2023, reportedly made 906 broadcast appearances, published 856 articles and achieved 81 million "coverage views".
Young Voices "discovers, nurtures, and promotes independent communicators and creators ages 18-35", the website notes, working with "unconventional young thinkers from a variety of backgrounds working in policy, journalism, innovation, and academia".
"We work with political independents who don't fit neatly on the left-right spectrum. The most interesting people rarely do," the website states.
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One testimonial on the page is from an Assistant News Editor at the Daily Mail, Bill Bowkett, who writes that over a four-year period, he went from writing for his student newspaper "to becoming a regular political broadcaster on national television and radio programmes, and from there, I became a news editor at one of the world's biggest newspapers". He credits Young Voices for its training, guidance and "wealth of connections" which was "invaluable in spearheading my career".
The placement of libertarian voices in the media is achieved with the support of radical right-wing foundations. Until at least 2021, the agency was listed as a partner of the Charles Koch Foundation, from which, that year, it received £34,000.
The Charles Koch Institute is named after its American oil magnate founder, Charles Koch, who Greenpeace dubbed the "kingpin of climate denial" for pouring money into climate change obfuscation and denial campaigns through the institutions he funds.
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Koch has also funded a decades-long fight against trade union legislation in America, and in 2023, was accused by the Guardian of using his network to bring cases to the Supreme Court that could undermine the core "functions of the US Government".
Young Voices is currently partnered with the Atlas Network, which Greenpeace US describes as a "Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group". Another 2021 donor was the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundati
He told Tom Harwood that the new Government was "all about tax rises...smoking bans, and taking away people's freedom, rather than any positive vision".
Rowlett may seem like an independent voice. However, he is in reality one of a new group of young right-wing commentators appearing on TV news channels, who have been handpicked and primed to deliver soundbites by a talent agency that received funding from American pro-Trump foundations.
Rowlett, like several others, is backed by Young Voices, a "nonprofit talent agency for rising freethinkers in public policy" that operates in the US, UK and the EU and promotes the libertarian cause of "free speech, property rights, the rule of law, free trade of goods and labour, and low taxation and regulation".
The emergence of a talent agency to help deliver right-wing views to the masses is, what one former advertising executive described as a "completely new phenomenon", and a graduation from traditional attempts to influence opinion and policy through lobbying and PR.
"Young Voices, as a talent agency specifically for right-wing talent, is a worrying new development in the media world", a former EMEA marketing director at Saatchi & Saatchi, who declined to be named, told Byline Times.
On its website, Young Voices promises its members "media training and placement services" and details how its team of "PR professionals edits and places op-eds, schedules broadcast interview opportunities, and connects our best writers to mentorship and employment opportunities".
Young Voices, the website claims, has 102 current contributors who, in 2023, reportedly made 906 broadcast appearances, published 856 articles and achieved 81 million "coverage views".
Young Voices "discovers, nurtures, and promotes independent communicators and creators ages 18-35", the website notes, working with "unconventional young thinkers from a variety of backgrounds working in policy, journalism, innovation, and academia".
"We work with political independents who don't fit neatly on the left-right spectrum. The most interesting people rarely do," the website states.
Related reading: Exposing the Real UK Race Riot Instigators: The Key Players and Transatlantic Network Around Tommy Robinson
One testimonial on the page is from an Assistant News Editor at the Daily Mail, Bill Bowkett, who writes that over a four-year period, he went from writing for his student newspaper "to becoming a regular political broadcaster on national television and radio programmes, and from there, I became a news editor at one of the world's biggest newspapers". He credits Young Voices for its training, guidance and "wealth of connections" which was "invaluable in spearheading my career".
The placement of libertarian voices in the media is achieved with the support of radical right-wing foundations. Until at least 2021, the agency was listed as a partner of the Charles Koch Foundation, from which, that year, it received £34,000.
The Charles Koch Institute is named after its American oil magnate founder, Charles Koch, who Greenpeace dubbed the "kingpin of climate denial" for pouring money into climate change obfuscation and denial campaigns through the institutions he funds.
Related reading: Russia Allegedly Spent $10 Million Funding US Media Company and its 'Superspreader' Creators to Push Pro-Kremlin Disinformation
Koch has also funded a decades-long fight against trade union legislation in America, and in 2023, was accused by the Guardian of using his network to bring cases to the Supreme Court that could undermine the core "functions of the US Government".
Young Voices is currently partnered with the Atlas Network, which Greenpeace US describes as a "Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group". Another 2021 donor was the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundati
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