Sure, the Kochs have appeared on the Time 100 list – in 2011, 2014 and 2015 – and David Koch has lunched with the magazine’s former editor. But at least some of what the brothers have poured money into over the years is a matter of public record. The Center for Media and Democracy’s Mary Bottari told the Guardian she considered it “a smart move” on Koch’s part. Their relationship, as chronicled in a recent piece by Mayer – whose writing in the New Yorker helped make the Koch brothers a household name – runs deep. “While people watch the Trump circus, the Koch brothers just get stronger.”In the end, the Kochs’ return on any move into media will not be measured by Time’s bottom line.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2017 05:26 UTC