[Occupymendocino] Paying for Citizen Koch

[Richard Karch]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/19114-paying-for-qcitizen-kochq


Paying for "Citizen Koch"
By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
28 August 13
 
t appears that "Citizen Koch," an embattled documentary about the influence of money on politics, which suffered a near-death experience after the public-television system withdrew its support, may survive after all.

As I reported recently in The New Yorker, public-television officials abruptly withdrew financial support for the film amid growing worries that the project would displease David Koch, a billionaire industrialist and longtime public-television funder, whose political activism the film cast in harsh light. Now, however, as the Times reported Tuesday, the documentary's creators, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, have managed to raise enough money inde...


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