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Showing Original Post only (View all)David Koch Resigns as WNET Trustee Amid New Article [View all]
Amid concerns that Koch Industries could buy several major U.S. newspapers from Tribune Company, industrial billionaire David Koch was forced to step down as trustee of WNET, New York Citys largest public TV station, after the New Yorker revealed how WNET gave Koch inappropriate influence over its programming. Mr. Koch was floating a seven-figure donation over WNETs leadership as the station aired a movie that portrayed him as a particularly greedy Manhattan resident.
Sure enough, WNET didnt wind up receiving David Kochs hefty donation.
Last Thursday, David Koch submitted his resignation at a WNET Board of Trustees meeting, and Brad Johnson at Forecast the Facts* reports that Kochs name was scrubbed from WNETs website several days prior to the resignation. Koch Industries public relations website, KochFacts, released a preemptive response to the New Yorker article (which it has now urgently elaborated on), attempting to stifleNew Yorker reporter Jane Mayer and the details of her newest piece. David Kochs resignation as a WNET Trustee, coupled with telling quotes from WNET president Neal Shapiro and other sources, makes it clear that Koch had too much influence at the decreasingly-public TV station in New York.
Sure enough, WNET didnt wind up receiving David Kochs hefty donation.
Last Thursday, David Koch submitted his resignation at a WNET Board of Trustees meeting, and Brad Johnson at Forecast the Facts* reports that Kochs name was scrubbed from WNETs website several days prior to the resignation. Koch Industries public relations website, KochFacts, released a preemptive response to the New Yorker article (which it has now urgently elaborated on), attempting to stifleNew Yorker reporter Jane Mayer and the details of her newest piece. David Kochs resignation as a WNET Trustee, coupled with telling quotes from WNET president Neal Shapiro and other sources, makes it clear that Koch had too much influence at the decreasingly-public TV station in New York.
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http://www.nationofchange.org/media-manipulators-david-koch-resigns-wnet-trustee-amid-new-yorker-article-1369405651
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I haven't heard the resolution of that attempt, yet. We've lost our progressive voices up here.
freshwest
May 2013
#46
Not sure what your alphabet means, but all sponsorship is a two way street. WNET promotes hate
Bluenorthwest
May 2013
#58
good that this public TV station noticed a wealthy 'donor' push a control private agenda.
Sunlei
May 2013
#28
Thanks for posting this! Yup, the Kochs have had way too much control over the media & want more yet
hue
May 2013
#34
I always cringed when I saw his name among the "donors", because I figured he was up to no good.
Hugin
May 2013
#36
Good, g'bye, don't let the door, am-scray buster, adios muchacho, sayonara, drop me a line, bon voya
Smarmie Doofus
May 2013
#39
He's got his blasted name blasted into the side of the "State Theater" (formerly)
SleeplessinSoCal
May 2013
#54