Jack2014

The Koch Brothers through their supposedly tax free political organizations have now successfully bought the media in total. This to continue to push their Libertarian/Bircher lying agenda. What does that mean for the rest of us? It means that the press and wh**ever will not challenge the Koch's when their subordinates in the bribed House and Senate( TPers and AH's) will not be challenged whatsoever when they make their Koch generated outrageous lies.
Will Somebody Wake Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Up and Warn Them That The Bircher/N**i Kock's Are After Their $$$ TOO!

Newspapers Across America Are Stealthily Helping The Koch Brothers Buy The Government

By: Rmusemore from Rmuse
Thursday, October, 30th, 2014, 12:01 pm

Long before radio and television, much less the Internet and social media era, Americans only access to the news was either word of mouth or newspapers. In fact, print journalism, at one time regarded as the Fourth Estate, was the people’s great equalizer between the masses and powerful. According to a great journalist of his day, Finley Peter Dunne, “The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.” The implication was that newspaper journalists’ primary function was “to get at the t***h and to keep watch at the abuses of power” solely to protect the people from the wealthy elite. Obviously, corporate media is not interested in the t***h or abuses of power, and now that the Koch brothers have successfully extended their influence into print journalism, newspapers are not only failing to keep watch at the abuse of power, they are working for, and in concert with, the conservative movement as dictated by the Koch brothers. What makes newspapers actions more despicable is that they are not owned by the Kochs, but they are using so-called “opinion and editorial” pages to promote Republican candidates, and push Kochs’ ideology and vision for America as the country’s salvation.
Last week, an op-ed in Michigan’s Midland Daily News praised the Koch brothers’ vision for America and defended their outrageous spending spree to promote their corporatist agenda and influence e******ns. However, what the newspaper’s editorial staff failed to disclose was the op-ed writers’ substantial connection to the Koch brothers. It is a practice that many newspapers across the nation are engaging in and it is not necessarily that Koch employees and operatives are infiltrating newspaper editorial pages, it is more that newspapers are negligent at least, and more likely complicit, in pushing a hard-right conservative agenda as the path to the American dream.

The Michigan op-ed, in particular, was penned by a Koch brother employee, Timothy Nash, who defended the Koch’s political spending as “belief in, passion for, and support of the traditional values that have made America great.” Nash serves on the board of the Free Enterprise Institute (FEI), a Koch-funded group, as well as director of the Koch Scholars program at Northwood University, funded by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. He is also adjunct professor with the Koch-funded think tank, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. It is noteworthy that the Mackinac Center, “the largest conservative state-level policy think tank in the nation,” is part of the State Policy Network (SPN). SPN is a sister organization of the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) created specifically to “privatize education, block healthcare reform, rob state employee pensions, restrict workers’ rights, and roll back environmental protections.”

A week after Midland Daily News published a pro-Koch “op-ed,” the Detroit News published another pro-Koch “op-ed” that was a political campaign ad touting Governor Rick Snyder as Ohio’s messianic savior. The piece was written by an employee of another Koch brothers’ group, Generation Opportunity, and praised Snyder and state Republicans as champions of education reform; particularly higher education reform. Generation Opportunity’s primary goal is eliminating ‘accredited’ institutions to make room for Koch libertarian-driven corporate-fueled private schools.

When newspapers aren’t publishing Koch-brother promotional pieces and campaign ads under the guise of editorial opinions, they are promoting and protecting Koch-funded Republicans. That was the case last week when the Cleveland Plain Dealer removed the video of its editorial board’s endorsement meeting with their favorite Republican, Ohio Governor John Kasich and his pathetic performance in the same room as his Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald.

The video the newspaper’s editors did not want Ohio residents to see showed Kasich slumped in his chair, refusing to acknowledge the other candidate, and ignoring repeated attempts by the Plain Dealer’s editorial staff to answer even basic questions about his policies and programs. If the video was available, it would explain precisely why Kasich rejected multiple debate offers from FitzGerald. It does not, however, explain why the newspaper is promoting a confirmed Koch brother dev**ee instead of doing what newspapers are supposed to do; “get at the t***h and keep watch of abuses of power;” two tasks the Kochs and Kasich cannot allow to occur.

Even in California, a decidedly blue state, newspapers are actively promoting Koch-aligned candidates on their editorial and opinion pages. The largest and most influential newspaper in California’s great Central Valley provided a Koch-fueled candidate running for re-e******n to Congress, Jeff Denham (R), with a prime campaign ad placement on its opinion page to push a pro-corporate, pro-oil industry, and anti-environmental extremist position rife with outright lies. What is not so stunning, is that the newspaper boasting ‘t***sparency and t***h’ in journalism allowed Denham to use language straight out of the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity playbook based on Koch-created lies. Language that claimed, for example, that the devastating drought plaguing the Golden State was not caused by lack of rainfall due to c*****e c****e, but the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Waters Act. The newspaper’s editors know their audience is too ignorant to comprehend that lack of rainfall is the reason the state is in a severe drought and allowed Denham to blame the water woes on dirty environmental extremists and clean water advocates.

There is a world of attention given to the influence, and damage from, corporate-driven, main-stream media outlets such as Fox News and CNN for promoting the conservative’s extremist agenda and Republican policies. However, the real damage is being inflicted every day in newspapers, large and small, across the nation in small towns and major metropolitan areas. Many Americans understand they cannot trust main stream broadcast media, but they still hold the opinion that their local newspapers are following the mandate to ‘get at the t***h and expose abuses’ against the public. They are sadly mistaken because what drives newspaper editors and publishers is their corporate media owners as well as corporate-driven advertisers dev**ed to promoting the Koch brothers’ agenda and not exposing their blatant abuses against the American people.

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Bircher/Nazi America here we go! Heil Kochs


Seniors get your heads out of the holes! They want SS and Medicare destroyed now


The people behind the desk may have Ebola too!

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Where's the link?

Guess you must be one of these?
http://www.dsausa.org/

astrolite

A little insight into the workings of the Liberal mind? Besides...Soros would NEVER sell his control of the media!

Jack2014

LINK AS REQUESTED BY DS.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/30/newspapers-america-promoting-koch-candidates-ideology.html

Jack2014

Here's another good one
http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=522f85d70e88c4caace8df597&id=7804e7e06a&e=f17fdbbb3f

Jack2014

Oh C'mon,are you sick minded?
Have you ever heard the name Murdoch?
Read the article
It states clearly that the Koch N**i organizations buy ad space and the newspapers cowtow to them as a result.

EconomistDon

Now there is a source we can trust, a completely unbiased web site -------- NOT.

IF the article is true, I consider it terrific that America can finally get full information on important issues. Unfortunately, newspaper readership is way down. Most people will still get only the biased liberal version of news events on TV and the internet. People are getting one-sided, misleading reports.

For example -- during the height of the Israel/Gaza shelling, NBC nightly news did a couple minutes of reporting on the conflict every evening. They would report how Israel bombed a school k*****g dozens of innocent people. Then they would pan to a correspondent in Gaza who would interview locals about the terrible atrocities. And that was the end of their reports - no reports from Israel. Any viewer who failed to search deeper would not understand that Hamas stockpiled rockets in the school and launched those rockets at innocent civilians in Israel. They wouldn't realize that Hamas launched those rockets from crowed communities of civilians hoping that Israel would not return fire to that location; and if they did, world opinion would pity the Gaza civilians that were k**led. And viewers would not know that before Israel returned fire, they called local citizens by phone telling them to get out of the way, rockets are coming in 10 minutes.

Another example -- a poor innocent, unarmed black teen was k**led by a white police officer in Ferguson. And b****s r**ted over the injustice. That is all we got from the liberal media. So most viewers of the liberal media stations don't realize that the policeman was trying to apprehend the teen for a robbery that he just committed. That the teen was over 6 feet tall, 280 pounds, and thought he could beat up the policeman rather than submit to arrest. The teen pounded on the policeman so hard, he broke bones in the policeman's face. Eight witnesses testified that the officer tried to stop the teen with warning shots to the arms, before the fatal shot.

Sorry pal, Americans shouldn't have to work so hard to get the full story on important issues. I'm thrilled that the Koch brothers are doing their part to make America better informed.

Jack2014

Name yours,i***t!
Every one else is biased TPuke N**i Koch's or Birchers! Even MSNBC is owned by Rs.
The clear example is the lack of aggressive reporting when the DS Dubya/Cheney lied like a rug about NUCS IN IRAQ. NOT A PEEP ABOUT THE REAL REASON FOR INVASION-OIL. EXPLAIN PUKE IF YOU DARE,
Your just full of more conservapuke BS.

Plenty of Koch pigeons around these days

Thunder

Jack2014 : Since you just came out of the Liberal Cave how is it if the Koch Bros. are so bad how come Dirty Harry h**es them so much !! I am sure you love Old Dirty Harry and his dumb Ass Policy's .He shelves ALL bills sent to him from the Congress unless they are in -line with him and Obumers thoughts . He has 365+ sitting on his desk now which he will not let come to a v**e or even be heard . Your so-called facts SUCK !! You are a typical Liberal. Get a Damn LIFE !!

Jack2014

Your really strange.
You know full well all the house bills that they passed were worthless junk.what about the 400+ filibusters? Or the passed real bipartisan bills on the drunken Boner's desk,puke? If your a simple minded TPer,GTH.

Totally anti Bircher Nazi Kochisms

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

The Koch brothers couldn't give a hoot about " keeping people informed" and neither could Soros or any other corporate owners of the various media outlets. News outlets stopped being about the news quite a while ago. Walter Cronkite got people used to news people introducing opinions on a national stage. That's one of the main factors in our losing the Vietnam war. Once opinion was considered "OK" to present AS news, the race was on - to influence that opinion. The easiest way found to ensure that one's own opinion was presented - exclusively- was to buy the station/network.

Local stations sell airtime to whoever has the cash, they're still a business and making money is what they do. The only way to influence folk, is through the news and news type shows. At e******n time, you can easily tell which candidates the owners/editors favor, just by the way they are presented on - the news.

johnson90

This is laughable! as if the media isn't now and hasn't been for the last several decades full of progressive liberal LIES. The media is so bias in their OPINIONS because it damn sure isn't facts that they print, that I can't hardly stand reading mainstream media news anymore! It makes me wanna puke!

Jack2014

Your being strange again major. The case is made

Jack2014

Your so much a RWNJS that you don't even know where your left hand is liar

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

Is it possible for a person to be more confused as one who would suggest libertarians and N**i's are the same, while endorsing government power expansion that was so necessary for N**i's to be - while libertarians want to shrink government.

Such illogic goes beyond dumb and enters the realm of delusion.