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Mag Bios Think Tank-Funding Bros.; KCET.org's Doherty Quoted

By Jeremy Rosenberg
August 27, 2010
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The current issue of the New Yorker features a long profileby Jane Mayer of David H. and Charles Koch, billionaire sibling oil refinery magnates who the piece says are the benefactors -- if not progenitors -- of various libertarian think tanks.

"In Washington," the story reads, "[David H.] Koch is best known as part of a family that has repeatedly funded stealth attacks on the federal government, and on the Obama Administration in particular."

KCET.org blogger Brian Doherty is quoted extensively in the story, as is a book he wrote. The Koch bros. declined to speak to the New Yorker, but granted interviews in the past to Doherty, whose day job is with Reason.

Reason posts this response to what it labels as the New Yorkers' "hit piece."

The original story is here.

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