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 | | The family's Castle Rock Foundation, which ranks 24th of the largest 79 foundations the study tracked, allows the family to exercise enormous, often unexamined, media power. |
 | | The F.M. Kirby Foundation, run by the Kirby family, provided $3.5 million in grants between 1999 and 2001, giving large sums to Cato, the Heritage Foundation, AEI and the Hudson Institute, and along with the Coors family, partially funding L. Brent Bozell's Media Research Center, the right-wing media watchdog group. |
 | | According to a Fair.org report, the Heritage Foundation alone had 3,141 media hits in 2003, up from 2,356 in 2002, an increase of 33 percent, while AEI saw a 42 percent increase and Hoover tallied up a 45 percent increase in media hits for the year. |
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