Koch Brothers Making Play for Tribunes Newspapers

[LiberalElite]

Source: New York Times

Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/business/media/koch-brothers-making-play-for-tribunes-newspapers.html?src=me&ref=general

[blue neen]

1. Oh, so they can control the message and bombard everyone with the Koch propaganda.

....just like Richard Mellon Scaife has done in Pennsylvania.

It's sickening.

[Sunlei]

2. thanks for the heads-up on the next 'newspaper' to turn to tabloid crap.

[KamaAina]

3. Why don't they just call it "Pravda"

and be done with it?

[jmowreader]

28. Because that would be false advertising

[SamKnause]

4. Message

What the Koch brothers and those who support them do not understand is they did get their message out and the majority of Americans disagree with it !!!!!!!!!!

[KamaAina]

5. “they see the conservative voice as not being well represented.”

I do not believe I just read that!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Kinda like everyone would like the GOP agenda if they just explained it better.

[RKP5637]

14. Same thoughts I had... reminds me of christians talking about being persecuted when many of them

are the ones persecuting others.

[olddots]

7. I'd love to see the Cock brothers take on Murdoch

Hopefully it would be all of their demise.

" Battle Of The Tape Worms From Hell "

[timdog44]

8. This is a real tragedy

in America that most of the media is owned and operated by wealthy persons or conglomerates. They have no news conscience and fail to do any real investigative reporting. Of course, a lot of the general public do not want to take the time to read any real journalism, which I say has lead us to the point we are in, in this country.

[RKP5637]

15. Exactly, by far the majority of Americans IMO take many MSM things at face value being clueless

to the fact the USA is one of the most propagandized nations in the world. And in ranking among the industrialized nations the USA is at the bottom in many categories ... yet, many Americans believe the bullshit that other nations can not possibly do as well as the USA.

All the dirt in the USA is swept under the rug by corporate MSM with hardly a hit of any "real" investigative reporting. ... so, we have all of the deer in the headlight people wandering the lands parroting the inane MSM talking points.

[timdog44]

17. Because of M$M,

people's perceptions of reality are vastly skewed. The most amount of reading done, besides small talking points from our news media, is bumper stickers. My brother is a prime example.

And speaking of reading and learning. Again, my brother. Just got elected to the local library board. The last book he started he did not finish because his crayon broke.

[EC]

9. the tribs are all pretty right wing now anyway... n/t

[mopinko]

26. always have been

old colonel mc cormick was a warmongering money grubber who would love having tea with the kochs.

[mimi85]

10. NO. This can't happen!

Not my LA Times! We've subscribed for at least 25 years since our county paper, The Press-Enterprise is a conservative POS. We'd have to switch to the SF Chronicle or the NY Times. The San Diego papers aren't any better. Damn, I love my paper and a cup of java in the morning. What awful news! Damn, I wish we could afford to move out of here.

[bvar22]

11. Recreating Somalia here at home.

"shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes."

These assholes want to be MORE than just RICH.
They want to be feudal War Lords from the Dark Ages,
and WILL succeed if WE don't stop them.

Our neighbors in Latin America have given us a Blue Print that will stop them.
They have successfully taken their countries back from the hands of their 1%.
All we lack is the will.

[lexw]

12. That's the way I've been feeling about the GOP since Reagan.

[bvar22]

16. AND.....

In Somalia,
EVERYBODY has an Assault Rifle WITH Large Capacity Magazines!!!!

A Republican PARADISE!!!

[RKP5637]

13. Look at Kansas - this is what the Koch Brothers want for you! Seriously! We are

watching and part of a fading democracy! And, they fund their thinking by generous funding to universities ... Vast money talks and has tremendous power. ... the seventh and eighth wealthiest people on earth.

[Brigid]

18. The Chicago Tribune, for one . . .

Has always been a house organ for the one percent. Their coverage of the Haymarket incident was a case in point. I can only imagine what their coverage of the events of 1968 was like.

Anyway, now what can we do about this? Not much, I fear.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Just hope

that newspapers are increasingly irrelevant as people seek the truth
on the internet

and that the Koch Bros. overpay.

[madrchsod]

20. the tribune has always been a right-wing rag.

although it has some what moderated over the years the kock bros purchase won't be a really big change in the direction of the newspaper. anyway most people could care less what the editorial content of the paper is.

[Kablooie]

21. So it may be a good thing that newspapers are on the wane.

If the newspapers all turn into New York Post like propaganda machines they should all fade away and die.

Sad though.
And it's difficult to know who does real reporting nowadays.

[Kolesar]

23. They might as well buy the Studebaker plant while they are at it

Your cats gif is lol.

[davidpdx]

22. It guarantees a Republican endorsement for every candidate for every election

Nothing like buying elections....

[milwaukeelib33]

24. Seems a good waste of money to me

Less they'll have to use to buy repug politicians like Scott Walker in WI.

[Bragi]

25. Let's pretend this doesn't matter

That's easier than worrying about it, or worse still, trying to stop billionaires from buying even more media to promote corporatism.

[School Teacher]

27. Right Wing Vanity Press Can Get Amazing Results

The Oregonian of Portland, Oregon was bought as a Right Wing vanity press a few years ago. They have destroyed many good hearted politicians and they very nearly were successful in getting an ex basketball player Republican elected as governor. They destroyed a mayoral candidate who was a better choice. Now they are going after a fine city councilman who is a selfless public servant. They hate public employees and government. Buying a newspaper and blasting your shabby opinions can have real results. Most people are too busy to be well informed and read between the lines. I so wish this weren't true!

[bemildred]

29. The final circling of the drain.

Pity, I like the LA Times, they have come a long way since they got rid of that rich weasel that bankrupted them. Now here come two more.

[jmowreader]

30. Is the price of toilet paper too high in Los Angeles?

Let me see...there aren't that many birdcages to line and puppies to housebreak in the LA Basin, fishmongers and fish & chip shops don't use newspaper to wrap your purchases anymore, there are better things than newspaper to use as drop cloths, and Orange County already has a right-wing rag. I think that if they buy the Los Angeles Times, they'll either sell or close it within a year because the people in LA can see through the Kochs' bullshit.

[blkmusclmachine]

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