Are Koch Industies’ PR Campaigns Successful?

I wrote recently that I was mystified about PBS’s “Ask This Old House” and how it so awkwardly avoids the issue of energy and the environment.  Several readers pointed out that the show is produced by WGBH in Boston, which is sponsored by Koch Industies, a group well-known for its vigorous public relations campaigns, aggressively misinforming Americans about the damage caused by fossil fuel emissions; mystery resolved.

These Koch boys are taking an awful drubbing in the press, though.  When one looks at articles like this one in Rolling Stone magazine, and the highly successful film documentary “Koch Brothers Exposed” one wonders how effective these PR campaigns could possibly be.