Cancelled Pbs Doc 'citizen Koch' Rescued by Kickstarter

PBS was driving on funding airy a documentary titled Citizen Cope and as you can imagine it was going to be very nice to the Koch brothers it has to do with the influence of money in politics and last minute they decided we're gonna pull funding we're gonna pull this documentary because the Koch brothers actually do what fun PBS to some extent they didn't want to ruffle anyone's feathers as a result other two filmmakers involve the movie Academy award-nominated film makers Carl deal and Tia lessin went to Kickstarter because they wanted to create the film nonetheless and they actually raised more money than what they were going to originally get from PBS so PBS was gonna give them about one hundred fifty thousand dollars but now it turns out that as of Thursday the Citizen Cope movie raised one hundred seventy thousand dollars from nearly 3400 owners get money that exit that's a terrific story so it's interesting be had a PBS had allowed another a movie that had to coax NN so about poor a a building on Park Avenue and the cokes Ademco cabin leave their David Koch also happen to be on the border PBS and he was not happy about it and of course that's part of having control the media well that's why they were thing you're buying more newspapers with your money-losing business but as for marketing is for propaganda et cetera and so eventually David Koch left the board love PBS and a half and so PBS Swiss scared out there much all my god what we lose our corporate donors when you lost to *** or no so in this movie came was coming out and it was about the Koch brothers they don't want NDP so that controversy they ran for the hills which is terrible but now so that people say in Article record the same I start given a PBS and I started giving to this documentary to make a point and which is disasters because PBS's you know very dependent on on private donations building all their money comes government only for you and shove their funding comes billion a year from the federal government only twelve percent okay now the problem though is that the remaining eighty-eight percent a lot of it comes to you and I not well you I I got any way with the youngsters I'm but but a lot of it comes from corporations the sponsors and benefactors but when you do that venue beholden to the benefactors you know I this may have happened there may be a lot of stories about this I'm not ever heard of PDS buckling under directly the benefactor pressure me basically look at how it works in is how it should work in United Kingdom with the BBC they funded but they don't you know the ideas like we're giving you money and then editorially office it's totally up to you right that's the that's how it's supposed to work but with corporate corporate America never doesn't seem to expect some degree overturn yeah on whatever they lay out hmm and in this case it was a it was a big story about that earlier movie and and and there's no question that Coke David Koch was upset about it and pulled and there's no question that PBS was very concerned about that reaction it's just that n and and so we're clear on this they had previously agreed and told all along the filmmakers that they would fun that are in fifty thousand dollars after the other movie came out may got there pressure than they said near you know what we change our mind on that funding and enough course the you a list of nonsense reasons which were like they didn't even try that hard right well we have a good read out a bill comment parking I so but look hey good news you know what a to E the big benefactors you are pull money out of these big media organizations threaten them et cetera sorry they got more money online so that internet sends his regards I