Inside the right-wing lie factory: Secrets of a Koch-funded propaganda machine more insidious than F

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Inside the right-wing lie factory: Secrets of a Koch-funded propaganda machine more insidious than Fox News

by Jeff Nesbit at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/30/inside_the_right_wing_lie_factory_secrets_of_a_koch_funded_propaganda_machine_more_insidious_than_fox_news/

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The Franklin Center’s president is Jason Stverak. He used to be the executive director of the North Dakota Republican Party. He also ran Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign efforts in the state. But just prior to starting the Franklin Center, he was the regional field director for the Sam Adams Alliance, where, according to his Franklin Center bio, he “worked with state groups and associations committed to promoting the free-market policies” that are now embedded in every political story that the network’s reporters write about in state capitals across the country.

“An expert in non-profit journalism, Jason works to promote social welfare and civil betterment by leading initiatives that advance investigative journalism,” his Franklin Center bio reads. “His support of non-profit journalism has played a vital role in exposing corruption in our elected officials and encouraging transparency in government.”


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The Franklin Center grew from nothing in 2007–08 to the largest network of local political reporting in the country almost overnight. Its 55 news sites generally cover political events or issues from an antitax, antiregulation, or antispending frame. While each of the sites has its own team of local reporters, they generally tend to share common themes across the entire network of coverage, recent studies have shown. Government is either working badly and needs to be exposed; or local initiatives are spending far too much money; or politicians are unjustly pushing for excise taxes on oil or gas or cigarettes; or the local governments are burying citizens in regulations and bureaucracy.

The Franklin Center describes most of its reporters in the state capitals as “watchdogs,” constantly looking for excise taxes that need to be rolled back or government initiatives and regulations that need to be curtailed. The organization was built to “address falling standards in the media as well as a steep falloff in reporting on state government,” its mission statement says. It “provides professional training; research, editorial, multimedia and technical support; and assistance with marketing and promoting the work of a nationwide network of non-profit reporters.” It supplements that watchdog reporting in state capitals with its “newly launched Citizen Watchdog program that trains ordinary citizens to report from local communities.”

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1. Considering they support Hillary now...

this article is out of date.

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2. Trump could very easily destabilize the world economy. I think that is why the Kochs say they like

Hillary. They seem to want to keep making billions hand over hand. Don't know why they need the money. They already have 100. But they seem to desperately need money form working class people and the middle class. Feel sorry for them. They are pathetic.