Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes.
The first two pieces of the strategy — educating grass-roots activists
and influencing politics — were not surprising, given the money they
have given to policy institutes and political action groups. But the
third one was: media.
Other than financing a few fringe libertarian publications, the Kochs
have mostly avoided media investments. Now, Koch Industries, the
sprawling private company of which Charles G. Koch serves as chairman and chief executive, is exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Company’s
eight regional newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago
Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Orlando Sentinel and The Hartford
Courant.
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This would be a great way to teach the low info voters what these tyrants are really up to, let it be so...........;)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a key. Now if they can buy all the schools.:)
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