David Koch Resigns as WNET Trustee Amid New Article

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14. He resigned before the New Yorker article came out

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.

The New Yorker article came out for the May 27 edition (though it comes online the week before). In it, it says that the board accepted his resignation on May 16. That means he'd already tendered the resignation; it was probably not accepted until the next board meeting. The issues had to do with PBS and the two programs that took him to task, whether modified or not.

I'm just trying to set the timeline straight, for the record.