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Jackpine Radical

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13. Citizen Koch.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #11)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 05:39 PM

Sep 2014

Last year, public television officials pulled $150,000 in funds they had committed to the documentary and cancelled plans for the film's broadcast premiere, as reported by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker, in fear of losing the financial backing of major PBS donor David Koch, the ultra-conservative billionaire industrialist and WGBH and WNET trustee. In this stunning turn of events, CITIZEN KOCH was effectively censored from the public airwaves.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizen_koch_2013/

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Something just dawned on me about corporate expenditures in politics-- [View all] Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 OP

It is just business RobertEarl Sep 2014 #1

It's an open invitation to money laundering, too n/t arcane1 Sep 2014 #2

nobody invited me reddread Sep 2014 #8

Business as usual. The SCOTUS made it very clear Rex Sep 2014 #3

Oh, it's much better than that jberryhill Sep 2014 #4

More people need to connect the dots...the mass media is in a huge conflcit of interest positon Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5

The same can of course be said of newspapers throughout our history, Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #6

Not near this extent, not near the political money, it is no contest with TV news, the money is Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #11

Citizen Koch. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #13

The circle of life...... FSogol Sep 2014 #7

Here's the thing... SomethingFishy Sep 2014 #9

It's Bizarro World. DC Comics had it nailed way back then. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #18

Yep libodem Sep 2014 #10

The biggest laugh? Reagan claimed all that money was going to go into PAYROLL. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #12

K&R.... daleanime Sep 2014 #14

I'm afraid you haven't even scratched the surface. Savannahmann Sep 2014 #15

I'll see your Truman Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #19

Truman left with only his National Guard pension. Savannahmann Sep 2014 #25

I seem to recall that US Grant was also at the poverty line Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #26

Which is why I said he left Washington Broke. Savannahmann Sep 2014 #27

Yeah, I get that. Now. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #28

Don't forget all the research done for corporations paid by the taxpayer. nt valerief Sep 2014 #16

Oh, it's a scene, man. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #17

You are right! libodem Sep 2014 #21

you just defined fascism. Adam051188 Sep 2014 #20

Yeah, pretty much. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #22

Can you go Further.....your post left me hanging to viewpoint and links? KoKo Sep 2014 #23

It was just one of those D'Oh moments. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #24

I can understand what you say then. Yes...sometimes giving links and such KoKo Sep 2014 #29