Koch brothers pick a fight with The New Yorker

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

Oil baron brothers David and Charles Koch aren't the types to throw out old magazines, according to recent reports. The Koch brothers have taken up against the American Association of Magazine Editors, who recently nominated an anti-Koch New Yorker article for a National Magazine Award in reporting.

Jane Mayer's "Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who Are Waging War Against Obama" ran last August. The Koch brother declined to be interviewed for the piece.

Now, a representative for the Koch brothers has written a letter to the ASME board, protesting the nomination of Mayer's piece.

"Her article is ideologically slanted and a prime example of a disturbing trend in journalism, where agenda-driven advocacy masquerades as objective reporting," wrote Koch Industries Senior Vice President and general counsel Mark Holden, according to the New York Post.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/03/koch-brothers-pick-a-fight-with-the-new-yorker/

[rurallib]

1. And it is true.

[tosh]

2. "...a disturbing trend in journalism,...

...where agenda-driven advocacy masquerades as objective reporting."

:rofl:

[LiberalAndProud]

5. right?

God should slap them with their own words. you know?

[Scuba]

3. I would agree with Koch general cousel Holden that there is...

..."a disturbing trend in journalism, where agenda-driven advocacy masquerades as objective reporting".

[Sonoman]

4. Right thru the Looking Glass, eh Markey-poo?

"Her article is ideologically slanted and a prime example of a disturbing trend in journalism, where agenda-driven advocacy masquerades as objective reporting,"

Is this Monty Python or The Onion?

Sonoman

[Amonester]

6. Bwahahaha.... projection.... projection.....

Mirror, mirror, who has the right to 'ma$$-querade' agenda-driven advocacy?

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[themadstork]

8. All hail our propaganda masters

Didn't they basically hire someone to run a Koch-slobberin' counterpiece shortly after Meyers's article?

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. The Kook Bros. are being called out left and right, and they don't like it one bit, nossir...

Or, as somebody said, Kochroaches just HATE it when someone turns on the kitchen light.

Memo to Davie and Chuckie: Don't pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel.

[EC]

10. It was investigative reporting

not objective reporting...

[jbnow]

11. Here is link to Mayer article they are mad about

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

[Gabi Hayes]

12. she also co-authored Strange Justice, which pulled back the curtain on

Clarence Thomas's PR/driven/Biden-enabled/totally mendacious SCOTUS campaign, thank you very much, Ken Duberstein

[MrScorpio]

13. Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel

Jus' sayin'