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发帖数: 8998 | 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
LLast fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in
2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan,
completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.
” It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th. The movie had been
produced independently, in part with support from the Gates Foundation. “
Park Avenue” is a pointed exploration of the growing economic inequality in
America and a meditation on the often self-justifying mind-set of “the one
per cent.” As a narrative device, Gibney focusses on one of the most
expensive apartment buildings in Manhattan—740 Park Avenue—portraying it
as an emblem of concentrated wealth and contrasting the lives of its
inhabitants with those of poor people living at the other end of Park Avenue
, in the Bronx.
Among the wealthiest residents of 740 Park is David Koch, the billionaire
industrialist, who, with his brother Charles, owns Koch Industries, a huge
energy-and-chemical conglomerate. The Koch brothers are known for their
strongly conservative politics and for their efforts to finance a network of
advocacy groups whose goal is to move the country to the right. David Koch
is a major philanthropist, contributing to cultural and medical institutions
that include Lincoln Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. In the
nineteen-eighties, he began expanding his charitable contributions to the
media, donating twenty-three million dollars to public television over the
years. In 1997, he began serving as a trustee of Boston’s public-
broadcasting operation, WGBH, and in 2006 he joined the board of New York’s
public-television outlet, WNET. Recent news reports have suggested that the
Koch brothers are considering buying eight daily newspapers owned by the
Tribune Company, one of the country’s largest media empires, raising
concerns that its publications—which include the Chicago Tribune and the
Los Angeles Times—might slant news coverage to serve the interests of their
new owners, either through executive mandates or through self-censorship.
Clarence Page, a liberal Tribune columnist, recently said that the Kochs
appeared intent on using a media company “as a vehicle for their political
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发帖数: 39524 | 2 有钱就有合法的话语权。我猜这是左派们写出的故事，右派的人也会写相反的东西。 |
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