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发帖数: 3205 | 1 PBS's Koch Problem: How a Major Right-Wing Funder Undercut Key Films
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174426/pbss-koch-problem-how-majo
Don’t miss Jane Mayer’s feature at The New Yorker, just posted online, on
little-known story of how PBS’s WNET in New York reacted in showing Alex
Gibney doc Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. The film did
air, but see what surrounded it.
Problem: It partly focused on the Koch Brothers, and David Koch is a major,
longtime WNET funder. So WNET bent over backwards to give him a chance to
respond even before the doc aired, and also scheduled a roundtable to
discuss it. Gibney: “They tried to undercut the credibility of the film,
and I had no opportunity to defend it…. Why is WNET offering Mr. Koch
special favors? And why did the station allow Koch to offer a critique of a
film he hadn’t even seen? Money. Money talks.”
And then another documentary realating to the Kochs ran into trouble and
lost funding.
But Mayer’s conclusion: “In the end, the various attempts to assuage David
Koch were apparently insufficient. On Thursday, May 16th, WNET’s board of
directors quietly accepted his resignation. It was the result, an insider
said, of his unwillingness to back a media organization that had so
unsparingly covered its sponsor.”
Read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174426/pbss-koch-problem-how-major-right-wing-funder-undercut-key-films#ixzz2TvyimEzA
A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORPublic television’s attempts to placate David Koch
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_may |
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