Jane Mayer on Koch Industries
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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When Jane Mayer investigated Koch Industries, somebody investigated her back.
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| 1:11.9 | I'm Dorothy Wickendon, and on today's Politics and More podcast, Jane Mayer discusses |
| 1:17.2 | Coke Industries. In 2010, while reporting on a story about the billionaire brothers Charles |
| 1:23.0 | and David Koch, Jane was charged with plagiarism. She traced the accusation to an operation, |
| 1:29.3 | apparently working on behalf of the Cokes, and discovered that they have a history of targeting |
| 1:33.5 | people they see as opponents. Jane Mayer is an investigative reporter. She's covered everything |
| 1:41.2 | from the Clarence Thomas hearings to drones and the use of torture by the CIA. |
| 1:47.0 | In 2010, she published an article in the magazine about the mega-billionaire industrialists |
| 1:52.6 | Charles and David Koch of Coke Industries and their funding of the Tea Party. |
| 1:59.2 | Now, back then, the Tea Party, as you may remember, was thought of as a populist uprising. |
| 2:04.3 | But Jane was investigating leads that the Koch brothers and other wealthy activists were sponsoring and actually instigating the movement. |
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