Koch Industries Buying Ads To Refute News Stories - RawStory

[WillyT]

Koch Industries buying ads to refute news stories
By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, April 18th, 2011 -- 5:50 pm



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Koch Industries has launched a website and is buying advertisements on Google and Facebook to counter news stories critical of the politically-active company.

Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries, were principle financiers of Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker and the tea party movement. They are also supporters of groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation.

In response to a story by the Center for Public Integrity that outlined Koch’s multimillion-dollar lobbying network in Washington, Koch Industries has started an ad campaign targeting the nonprofit organization.

The Center for Public Integrity has a screen shot of the Google ad, which says "Slanted Reporting on Koch: Bias, hidden agenda at the Center for Public Integrity" after a search for the words "Center for Public Integrity" and "Koch." A similar ad is also apparently on Facebook.

The ad links to the company's website, kochfacts.com, which contains a number of responses to "media inaccuracies" along with other statements from Koch Industries.

The Center for Public Integrity said the company refused to respond to a reporter’s questions when the story was published last week, but Koch retorted that their concerns about the objectivity and fairness of the reporter were "met with indignation."

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Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/18/kochs-industries-buying-ads-to-refute-news-stories/

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[rurallib]

1. must be feeling the heat - too bad. Hope they go broke.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Fat chance

LOL

[rurallib]

4. hope is about all I got.

[aquart]

2. Think their teeth are real?

I was going to say something else and then I saw the picture and all that porcelain whiteness near blinded me.

[Lint Head]

5. Pigs.

These corporate fascists have a board of directors. The board of directors is always made up of the richest people in that fascist corporation. The People should have a board of directors too. The unions are the Peoples boards.
The board of directors for the middle class and poor should actually be the poorest among us. They have the answers for these fascist jerks that are killing us, killing the environment and killing the future of mankind and I don't think that answer is very pretty.

[patrice]

6. Don't y' just love it? Reason, the great Libertarian thinkers on the Koch sugar-tit! How's THAT for

freedom and self-reliance for you?!?!?!!!

[Liberal Veteran]

7. You can tell they are good guys by the empty greedy souless eyes.

As seen through a mirror since gazing upon their malevolent visage directly has been likened to a staring match with a basilisk.

[peacetalksforall]

8. With that ... can anyone provide the post that lists their products. I got to the

store and could only remember Brawny and Angel Soft? I didn't buy anything - I need to carry the list with me so that I can be a wise buyer.

I wonder how I can find out if they supply store brands for mega stores - the products that are usually a few cents less than the household recognized brand names.

[WillyT]

10. Try Here:

Link: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=679&q=list+koch+industries+products&aq=0j&aqi=g-j6&aql=&oq=list+koch+&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=77ddf5e513ee4a4

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