Industrialists Charles and David Koch, well known for their climate change denial, have very recently expressed interest in buying newspapers<\/a>. We all know the Koch brothers by now. They are known to create and support partisan astroturf groups [e.g. Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity] that have no problem bending and\/or denying the truth to fit their tea party narrative.<\/p>\n

Remember back in 2008 when Americans for Prosperity passed around a pledge<\/a> to government officials asking them to “oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in state or local government revenue”? Or when the brothers funded a study on climate change only to have the study conclude<\/a> that climate change is real? Those are just the sort of shenanigans the Kochs are involved in.<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to imagine the level of spinning that might take place in a Koch-owned newspaper, but there’s a group of climate change believers over at Forecast the Facts<\/a> that have made it simple to toy with this idea. It’s easier to spread misinformation through the media when you own said media, right? Take a look at this entertaining [fictional] version of a Koch-owned L.A. Times newspaper.<\/p>\n

In the would-be Koch post, this serious article:<\/p>\n

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Turns into this denial:<\/p>\n

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If you want to try “Kochifying” the news, visit kochifythenews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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