Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers

I found this podcast, an interview with Charles Koch, interesting. There are two parts to it. Whatever the ideological issues may be, I found he spoke in an engaging way.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-... http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...

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Post by DonHopkins » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 3:43 AM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #3

wnevets wrote: post #2

I guess a certain someone gets to become the time person of the year after all.

Surprisingly, they're not his biggest fan. At all.

Once he nukes NK, they'll fall in line along with everyone else. ...Or at least, that's the plan.

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Post by jonny_eh » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 3:43 AM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #4

wnevets wrote: post #2

I guess a certain someone gets to become the time person of the year after all.

Nope. They are not friends.

They're on good terms now

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-david-bi...

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Post by aliasnexus0 » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 3:52 AM UTC

somberi wrote: post #5

I found this podcast, an interview with Charles Koch, interesting. There are two parts to it. Whatever the ideological issues may be, I found he spoke in an engaging way. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-... http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...

Both very interesting episodes.

Also, I can't recommend the Freakonomics podcast enough.

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Post by mc32 » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 3:54 AM UTC

Now we have two (more) major newsoutlets owned by activist owners --WaPo and Time Mag.

Wish there were more independence in the media. Or at least fewer owners who will push agendas. Time will tell.

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Post by pcunite » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 3:56 AM UTC

somberi wrote: post #5

I found this podcast, an interview with Charles Koch, interesting. There are two parts to it. Whatever the ideological issues may be, I found he spoke in an engaging way. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-... http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...

Charles seems like a nice guy. Curious, what is the political problem with him?

https://youtu.be/Z7Pj2rKdKII

A quote from the video: If you don't learn to do dirty jobs, if you don't learn unpleasant work, by the time you're in your 30s, you never learn to work productively ... you learn from that you don't want to do that the rest of your life, so you had better find some aptitude.

He says that after telling about a time his father made him dig out weeds.