What Happened to Jane Mayer When She Wrote About the Koch Brothers.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-jane-mayer-when-she-wrote-about-the-koch-brothers.html

Out of the blue in the fall of 2010, a blogger asked Jane Mayer, a writer with The New Yorker, how she felt about the private investigator who was digging into her background. Ms. Mayer thought the idea was a joke, she said this week. At a Christmas party a few months later, she ran into a former reporter who had been asked about helping with an investigation into another reporter on behalf of two conservative billionaires.

“The reporter had written a story they disliked,” Ms. Mayer recounts in “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” out this month from Doubleday. Her acquaintance told her, “‘It occurred to me afterward that the reporter they wanted to investigate might be you.’”

It would be great if everybody read this book.

[octoberlib]

1. I have it waiting for me in my Kindle

but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

[Javaman]

2. she was interviewed on Democracy Now! last week...

the koch brothers are evil bastards.

[leveymg]

3. She's a lot more than a "blogger." How condescending of Dwyer. n/t

[Jackie Wilson Said]

4. Better source, you are right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/books/review/dark-money-by-jane-mayer.html

[leveymg]

5. Thanks.

[Hortensis]

6. Ours should be here any time. This whole

subject needs a giant national spotlight on it.