Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
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Published 2023-06-30
PragerU, The Daily Wire, countless far-right talk shows, YouTube channels, think tanks, and online magazines. Where are they all coming from, and why are they all so well funded? Let's take a look at the groups bankrolling far-right rhetoric and what they stand to gain from platforming these people.
Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Yugopnik’s video on the online right
• Who Funds And Controls The Online Right?
Visualizations of the Kochtopus
projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Maze_of_Money.png
www.sourcewatch.org/images/d/d6/W-kochnetwork.jpg
Wilks money dump into PragerU and Daily Wire
www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan…
Daily Wire/PragerU recent highlights
www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-host-sa…
www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wires-author…
www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-host-sa…
www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/jordan-peterson-i-…
www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wire-ho…
www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-w…
NPR story on Daily Wire reach
www.npr.org/2021/07/19/1013793067/outrage-as-a-bus…
Stochastic terrorism
• American Fascism And The Groomer Panic
Matt Walsh 7 HB1
www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/hb1-pass…
Koch support to DeSantis
floridapolitics.com/archives/521321-americans-for-…
DeSantis Daily Wire support
www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/ron-desantis-paid-…
Koch support to Daily Wire figures
prospect.org/justice/care-faux-free-speech-warrior…
Koch support to Daily Caller
readsludge.com/2018/11/21/charles-koch-is-funding-…
Daily Caller highlights
dailycaller.com/2018/11/20/dhs-migrant-caravan-on-…
groomed.dailycaller.com/optin-59523488168565439123…
dailycaller.com/2023/06/13/outrageous-vicious-trum…
The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2018/11…
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putti…
Koch Time Investment
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/27/koch-broth…
LA Times
www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/14/los-angeles-…
Stand Together
standtogether.org/about-us/
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/4…
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stand_Together_Chamb…
Campus “free speech” groups
www.thenation.com/article/archive/dark-money-behin…
Campus research centers
www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/koch-donors-george-m…
Think tanks propped up in all 50 states which got a combined $83 million dollars from Koch-funded orgs and their allies in 2011
www.politico.com/story/2013/11/koch-brothers-think…
Some notables
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute
twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/13715410445929963…
www.climateofdenial.org/track-climate-change-denia…
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/07/oil-lobby-co…
Pushing Republicans to the far right
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/koch-industries/summary?i…
Mont Pelerin society
www.forbes.com/profile/charles-koch/
Lobbying
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/koch-industries/summary?i…
Anti-muslim & anti-LGBT hate groups
www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/01/22/koch-favored-donor…
All Comments (21)
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For a bunch of people claimed to be silenced, right-winger sure have TONS of media representations.
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Actual left wing voices will never get the same level of backing no matter what conspiracy theories others try to spin, because it goes against the class interests of the most wealthy. If we somehow do it'll be from a critical mass of popular support.
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Why is it even legal for politicians to donate to press organizations....? Ridiculous
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It's funny how billionaire-funded right-wing media is never critical of billionaires. What a strange coincidence.
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Easiest way to keep people divided. Distract them with a culture war.
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If Far-Right Conservative Christians followed the actual teaching of Jesus their Heads would explode. 💁🏿♂️🤯
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Nothing says "I'm being oppressed" like being paid boatloads of money to say what you're saying.
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While I appreciated how informative this was, it’s hard to watch videos like this without becoming utterly depressed and frustrated :(
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"We're being silenced," said Ben Shapiro, speaking into a microphone to an audience of millions...
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I'm starting to think that concentrating the vast majority of humans wealth in the hands of several dozen sociopaths is actually a bad idea 🤔🤔🤔
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My friends and I play the "that seems koch-funded" game. it's surprisingly easy to just hop from wikipedia article to wikipedia article seeing what foundation supports what strange right wing website and who funds all that and who they're connected to. The Kochtopus is a hilarious term, I'll be using that
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Im from Spain, we have the same problem here. No matter what you like or search, right-wing media is always present without searching. If you wanna see left-wing media you have to search a lot.
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The entire rightwing of the political spectrum consists of two distinct groups. The rich and the suckers
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The reach is international, not only in the US. It's impressive how that amount of money can do for right-wing media.
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I'm glad he didn't claim to give a balanced perspective. This video and the comments section feel like an ideological echo chamber. I did like the graphics though :)
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My friend was able to actually troll the ayn rand foundation: he was a winner of last years essay contest even though he wrote the whole thing ironically about becoming an entrepreneur by employing Venezuelan slave labor and included lots of meme speak. They wanted to fly him out to give a speech but he realized revealing his face was a bad idea because 1. it's hilarious how abhorrent the things he wrote were that they were in full support of and 2. Hhe would be in very real danger of violent lash back if they realized it was entirely dedicated to making fun of how absolutely psychotic they are
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I was trying to tell people about this in 2016. The idea that entire office floors are populated by well educated, well paid people pondering the best meme to spam on Twitter was unbelievable.
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"If our struggle was meaningless then their propaganda would be meaningless, keep fighting."
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Well, I couldn’t finish watching it after “gender affirming healthcare for those under 18”. Make this clear please; is this to include actions that cannot easily / healthily be reversed if this young person changes their mind in a couple of years? When you speak in these terms, without nuance, you’re taking the same tactic as those you are calling out.