Lee Fang’s Interview With David Koch Featured on HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’

Lee Fang’s Interview With David Koch Featured on HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’

Lee Fang’s Interview With David Koch Featured on HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’

The Nation‘s contributing writer’s reporting on the Koch brothers was highlighted on the show last night.

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Last night’s episode of HBO’s The Newsroom took us back to a simpler time, when the Koch brothers’ various entanglements in the Citizens United case were not yet a fact of common knowledge. In a 2011 interview with Nation contributing writer Lee Fang, David Koch acts as though he had never heard of Citizens United, as the show’s fictional news crew cobbles together evidence showing the opposite. Watch the original interview on ThinkProgress.

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