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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKoch addiction at Ohio University
Charles Koch + Roger Ailes = Ohio University?
Why would the esteemed Ohio University host a talk by the likes of Roger Ailes? Maybe we should ask one of the talks patrons, Charles Koch.
Ailes, of Fox News fame, is giving his talk today. The guy who invited him saysthe point was to get perhaps the most influential newsman in America to spark a discussion about free speech and the media, particularly given OUs first-rate school of journalism. But Roger Ailes isnt a newsman and doesnt do journalism. He does political advocacy thats (very) thinly disguised as journalism. As Eric Boehlert of Media Matters says, places of higher learning shouldnt help perpetuate the Fox myth while turning a blind eye to the lasting damage Ailess enterprise is doing to journalism and to our national discourse.
Might this act of selling out have something to do with the fact that the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation serves as an underwriter of the George Washington Forum, which is the OU group hosting the speech? As detailed in my film Koch Brothers Exposed, Charles Koch is a billionaire industrialist and one of the leading financiers of the American Right. He is known to meddle in educational institutions, infamously attaching strings to university donations by insisting he be able to veto a schools hiring decisions. Students and faculty at schools like Florida State University are fighting this corruption valiantly, but the encroachment on academic integrity and freedom remains a threat. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/932970/charles_koch_%2B_roger_ailes_%3D_ohio_university/
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Koch addiction at Ohio University (Original Post)
marmar
May 2012
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spanone
(135,924 posts)1. “perhaps the most influential newsman in America”
roger ailes is to news as john wayne gacy was to comedy
RZM
(8,556 posts)2. FYI, Milazzo's first book was about water policy
And argues that it was Congress that ended up making clean water happen. And even though their motivations were different than the environmentalists, they presaged them on this issue and ended up doing it for their own reasons:
http://www.amazon.com/Unlikely-Environmentalists-Congress-Clean-1945-1972/dp/0700614753/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337659056&sr=8-1