Release the video of Obama at that Palestinian fundraiser!
Investor’s Business Daily has a different take:
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The Kochs know how to make money, but they have little experience in the news business. It’s no leap of logic to assume they have other designs, consistent with their long history of bankrolling libertarian causes and institutions (such as the Cato Institute).
This scenario scares the left. Media Matters for America says reports of the Kochs’ interest in the papers are “sparking concerns from newspaper staff members that attempts to influence the editorial process in favor of their far-right political views may follow.”
Labeling the Kochs’ views “far-right” is a mark of the widespread newsroom bias that needs to be corrected.
On social issues such as gay marriage the brothers are, if anything, liberal. If they have any influence on the papers they buy, they would make them more balanced.
If we were among those “staff members,” in fact, we would be grousing less about the Kochs’ views and looking forward more to better times ahead.
If the Kochs do want to influence opinion, they can’t do so for long with failing newspapers. Their first order of business would be to bring the papers back to growth and profitability, and they appear to have the financial resources for a serious effort in that direction.
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With the kinda money those fellas have, it’d almost be fun to buy it just to set fire to it.
Given the pathetic-ness of the LAT, the Koch brothers could do no harm, no matter what they do.
Love seeing the Washington Compost get their panties in a wad over this.
I love how the libs claim that the Koch Brothers are on “the far right.” So, apparently, the libs consider themselves to be centrists. If The LATimes, NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, et al are in the middle, who the hell is on the left? Pravda??
Almost anything would be an improvement!
Bad Dog.
“But it will come complete with a commitment to journalism as a branch of right-wing ideology.”
Which is a vast improvement over Minitrue’s commitment to journalism as leftist propaganda. Maybe if the Koch brothers buy the LA Times it might begin selling again.
Sell all the newspapers to The Tea Party for $1 each. Get the Truth out, finally.
Given the nature of the Kochs’ investment in grass-roots activism and politics, that doesn’t bode well for the kind of fact-based journalism that most American newspapers strive to practice.
Laughable in the extreme. Reality has left the building.
It starts here and only gets worse. If I hadn’t seen WP as the paper, I could have wagered a good bet that Meyerson didn’t work for the WT. Couple of good comments at the end of the article, following the first leftist that contradicted himself without even seeing it.
It would be great if the Kock bros. could acquire these papers and get rid of the left wing propaganda.
In a strictly business sense their market is left wing and the paper would be run to serve those people.
Of course, they could be good to reduce taxes
Many of us quit taking our local rags not merely because they were left of Pravda but because there was no actual news for even weather and sports became politics, let alone such things as fires, floods, and God forbid crime statistics!
Since they are gay, they would...oh, I can’t say that here.
I can’t tell if this is a news story, an editorial or a crying fit. Tell mommy to change your diaper, Harold.
If they bought all the papers, they’d be idiots. If they want to get into the newspaper business, buy one, concentrate on it, rehabilitate it, and then use the same model to recover other media giants that the liberals have utterly trashed.
Besides, buying the whole company comes with a huge load of liability that would be a poison pill to anyone who purchased the company. No way to get to profitability with that kind of overhead.
As to which property, I’d prefer it to be the LA Times, but know how much of a financial disaster the paper is. But there, at least, a huge financial investment can actually reap rewards.
Don’t you just love it when the libs use the perjorative term “right-wing” but NEVER use the word “conservative?”
When are the liberals ever called “left-wing?” Now they call themselves “progressive.”
Also, aren’t the Koch brothers in favor of same sex “marriage” and abortion?
Still, it would be fun to see the libs have a meltdown if the Koch brothers purchase the LA Times.
Repackage it as toilet paper for humans and pets.
Make it readable.
They would shut down the paper, execute the editors, enslave the reporters and their families, break the unions at the paper, gas the union members en masse, raze the buildings, plow up the soil and salt it, zero out the EBT cards of everyone within 20 miles of the paper so they starve to death, shoot all the resultant rioters, establish a tyrannical monarchy, abolish freedom, grow cotton in vacant fields and force black folks to pick it, repeal the women’s vote amendment, kick puppies and eat fried kittens.