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'''Tech Central Station''' calls (TCS) - until fall 2006, run by public affairs and lobbying firm [[DCI Group]] - 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 intersects culture. Some contributors are associated with a range of affiliated conservative [[think-tanks ]] including [[International Policy Network]](IPN), the [[Sustainable Development Network]] (SDN), the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA) and the [[Scientific Alliance]]. ==History== Started in 2000 by [[James K. Glassman]], TCS was published by [[DCI Group]]. Some DCI Group clients were also sponsors of TCS. DCI Group is published a public affairs consulting and funded by Republican lobbying firm based in Washington DC. In October 2006 ''O'Dwyers PR Daily'' reported that the [[DCI Group]] and had sold its TCSDaily online journal to the editor of the site [[Nick Schulz]]. On its website, TCS states that "on September 19, 2006, DCI Group LLC announced the sale of TCS Daily to its clientseditor, Nick Schulz. As part of this process, our previous sponsorship agreements have expired. Updates about the transition in ownership will be posted on this page as they are available." <ref>[http://www.tcsdaily.com/about.aspx "About TCS Daily"], ''TCS Daily.com'', accessed October 2007. </ref> ==Featured Authors== * [[Kendra Okonski]] - During the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, [[Kendra Okonski]] wrote an article for the TechCentralStation web site, stating that "Africans are sacrificed on the altar of trendy green delusions." Okonski works as co-ordinator for the London-based IPN and as the press contact for the SDN. She formerly worked with the Washington-based [[Competitive Enterprise Institute ]] (CEI). [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2003Q1/gm.html] * [[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]]. [http://techcentralstation.com/080805I.html] * [[Alan Oxley]] is a writer and editor of TechCentralStation's Asia-Pacific pages.* [[Sandy Szwarc]] ==Funding== Current & past funders include: *[[AT&T]] *[[ExxonMobil]] *[[General Motors Corporation]] *[[Intel| Intel Corporation]] *[[McDonald's]] *[[Microsoft]] *[[NASDAQ]] *[[National Semiconductor]] *[[PhRMA]] *[[Qualcomm]] In October 2006, two US Senators, [[Olympia Snowe]], (R-Maine), and [[Jay Rockefeller]], (D-W.Va.) wrote to [[ExxonMobil]]'s chairman and CEO [[Rex Tillerson]], asking that it "end any further financial assistance" to groups "whose public advocacy has contributed to the small but unfortunately effective climate change denial myth." The Senators singled out TechCentralStation as one such group. They wrote that "we are convinced that ExxonMobil's long-standing support of a small cadre of global climate change skeptics, and those skeptics' access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy". [http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2612021&page=1] ==Contact Information==Tech Central Station <br>P.O. Box 33705 <br>Washington, DC 20033 <br>Phone: 800-619-5258 <br>Fax: 202-572-6278 <br>web site: [http://www.techcentralstation.com www.techcentralstation.com] <br>email: info AT techcentralstation.com ==Articles and resources=====References==={{reflist|2}}===Related SourceWatch Linksarticles=== *[[DCI Group]] *[[Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI]] *[[TSE Enterprises]]*[[James K. Glassman]] ===External Linksresources=== *===External articles===*[http://www.techcentralstation.com Tech Central Station] {{cite web*Andy Rowell and Bob Burton, |publisher=John &#8220amp;[Belle Have A Blog:|title=Confessions of a Former Protein Sheath|url=http://wwwexaminedlife.prwatchtypepad.orgcom/johnbelle/prwissues2003/2003Q111/gmconfessions_of_.html Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops]", ''PR Watch'', Volume 10 No 1, First quarter |accessdate=2011-03-29|author=John Holbo|date=2003-11-20 |quote=The problem is that there is good reason to suspect the whole kit and kaboodle is an engineered media virus with the honest convictions of all blogger-contributors composing a sort of protein sheath. }} *Nicholas Confessore, "[http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.confessore.html Meet the Press: How James Glassman reinvented journalism--as lobbying]", ''Washington Monthly'', December 2003.*Andy Rowell and Bob Burton, &#8220;[https://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2003Q1/gm.html Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops]", ''PR Watch'', Volume 10 No 1, First quarter 2003.