The real Koch Industries story nobody will touch: old school leftie investigative journalist drops bomb on DemocracyNow! radio show, says Charles and David Koch “planted a very fawning profile of the Koch brothers in the New York Magazine days before as a way of preempting the New Yorker article”… Let’s repeat that: a very credible source says that the Kochs planted (as in, paid money/pulled strings to publish) a pro-Koch article in the New York Magazine… As this country declines, we’re seeing that American corruption looks no different than Russian—hell, even Nigerian—corruption… - By

What You Should Know / August 31, 2010

The real Koch Industries story nobody will touch: old school leftie investigative journalist drops bomb on DemocracyNow! radio show, says Charles and David Koch “planted a very fawning profile of the Koch brothers in the New York Magazine days before as a way of preempting the New Yorker article”… Let’s repeat that: a very credible source says that the Kochs planted (as in, paid money/pulled strings to publish) a pro-Koch article in the New York Magazine… As this country declines, we’re seeing that American corruption looks no different than Russian—hell, even Nigerian—corruption…

www.democracynow.org -- CHARLES LEWIS: Yeah, K-O—yeah, right, not the soft drink, yeah.Anyway, I started noticing this company some years ago. It is true, they have—I think the $100 million number may be a very conservative number by The New Yorker and by Jane Mayer. And by the way, the Koch Industries company and the Koch brothers essentially planted a very fawning profile of the Koch brothers in the New York Magazine days before as a way of preempting the New Yorker article. And they never consent to interviews.