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Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Why is the New York Times fixated on Koch Industries?

For more than two years, KochFacts.com has catalogued the New York Times seemingly disproportionate coverage of Koch Industries, a private, Wichita-based, industrial company.

Koch Industries as been featured in articles about the environment, campaign finance law, and obscure partisan videos on YouTube, and many others. The purpose of the counter on the right is to track the Times’ curious fixation.

Why all this attention? The Times’ Public Editor, Arthur Brisbane, explained somewhat circularly, “I think you can probably expect the Times to continue to cover Kochs' activities rather closely, as your organizations' activities have acquired quite a high profile.”

Readers can decide if our “high profile” is the cause or the consequence of politically driven coverage like that so often found in the Times.

Below is all the New York Times coverage of Koch Industries since KochFacts.com was launched on March 28, 2011:

  • A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit 
    AUSTEN 5/17/2013
  • Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry, With Eye on White House 
    WEISMAN & PETERS 5/18/2013
  • Immigrant Workers Give New Direction to Los Angeles Unions 
    MEDINA 5/17/2013
  • The Taxman Cometh 
    BROOKS & COLLINS 5/15/2013
  • Dark Heritage 
    KELLER 5/13/2013
  • In Big-Dollar Philanthropy, (Your Name Here) vs. Anonymity 
    OPPENHEIMER 5/10/2013
  • An Effort to Thwart Sale of Papers to the Kochs 
    NAGOURNEY & HAUGHNEY 5/09/2013
  • Koch Brothers Plan More Political Involvement for Their Conservative Network 
    CONFESSORE 5/01/2013
  • Senior Congressman and Newcomer Win Senate Nods in Massachusetts 
    SEELYE 5/01/2013
  • S.E.C. Gets Plea: Force Companies to Disclose Donations 
    CONFESSORE 4/24/2013
  • Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers 
    CHOZICK 4/21/2013
  • Romney Visits New York to Thank Donors 
    PARKER 4/11/2013
  • Oyster Farm Caught Up in Pipeline Politics 
    ONISHI 4/09/2013
  • In South Carolina Primary, Some Good Theater 
    SEVERSON 3/19/2013
  • Arkansas’s Abortion Ban and One Man’s Strong Will 
    ECKHOLM 3/11/2013
  • A Blunt Instrument in the Climate War 
    CATSOULIS 3/08/2013
  • A Conservative Provocateur, Using a Blowtorch as His Pen 
    RUTENBERG 2/24/2013
  • One Prism on the Undoing of Pinochet 
    ROHTER 2/08/2013
  • Markey and Lynch Outline Visions in Vying for Mass. Senate Seat 
    BIDGOOD 2/01/2013
  • A Worthy Goal, but a Suspect Method 
    PARENTI 1/27/2013
  • Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel 
    RUTENBERG 1/27/2013
  • Northeast Faces Stark Choice on Climate Pollution 
    SHATTUCK & SOSLAND 1/24/2013
  • Speech Gives Climate Goals Center Stage 
    STEVENSON & BRODER 1/21/2013
  • For ‘Party of Business,’ Allegiances Are Shifting 
    CALMES 1/16/2013
  • The Messy Work of Examining Disorganizations 
    HILL 1/11/2013
  • Hold Your Applause, Please, Until After the Toasts 
    SORKIN 1/02/2013
  • Bork and Liberalism 
    DOUTHAT 12/19/2012
  • Republican Cash Held More Sway in State Contests 
    CONFESSORE & DAVEY 12/16/2012
  • Fiscal Cliff Ahead: Cue the Extremists 
    FIRESTONE 12/04/2012
  • Something Missing in Chinese Newspaper’s Entirely Accurate Summary of Onion Report 
    MACKEY 11/27/2012
  • When ‘Super PACs’ Become Lobbyists 
    EDITORIAL 11/26/2012
  • Hatching Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens at M.I.T. 
    SELIGSON 11/24/2012
  • Daniel Handler Has Not Abandoned Lemony Snicket 
    GOLDMAN 11/23/12
  • Jeb Bush in 2016? Not Too Early for Chatter 
    RUTENBERG & ZELENY 11/22/2012
  • Park Avenue’s Well-to-Do: How They Stay That Way 
    GENZLINGER 11/11/2012
  • Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors 
    CONFESSORE & BIDGOOD 11/08/2012
  • Saving Wealthy Donors From Themselves 
    LAPIDOS 11/07/2012
  • G.O.P. Post-Election Spin 
    ROSENTHAL 11/07/2012
  • A Change in the Weather on Wall Street 
    ROSENBERG 11/07/2012
  • In California, a Tight Battle Over a Tax Initiative to Help Schools 
    ONISHI 11/07/2012
  • Georgia’s Voters Will Decide on Future of Charter Schools 
    RICH 11/05/2012
  • Reading the Fine Print in Abacus and Other Soured Deals 
    DAVIDOFF 11/02/2012
  • In the States: Alabama 
    STROM 11/02/2012
  • In Shift, Romney Campaign Approaches Pennsylvania With a New Urgency 
    PETERS 11/02/2012
  • Another Republican Group Buys Pennsylvania Air Time 
    PETERS 10/30/2012
  • The Billionaires Club 
    HAUGHNEY 10/29/2012
  • There’s a Memo From the Boss: Vote This Way New York Times 
    GREENHOUSE 10/27/2012
  • Both Romney and Obama Avoid Talk of Climate Change 
    BRODER 10/25/2012
  • Obama’s Best-Kept Secrets 
    FRIEDMAN 10/21/2012
  • Ever Bipartisan, Bloomberg Jabs Both Candidates 
    RUTENBERG 10/21/2012
  • Bloomberg Starts ‘Super PAC,’ Seeking National Influence 
    HERNANDEZ 10/17/2012
  • On Our Radar: Shell’s Beaufort Sea Drilling Rig 
    GREEN BLOG 10/16/2012
  • Toe to Toe 
    EDSALL 10/07/2012
  • Impartial Justice at Risk 
    EDITORIAL 10/06/2012
  • Republican Party Aims to Remake Florida Supreme Court 
    ALVAREZ 10/02/2012
  • Battle Over Unions Moves to California 
    NAGOURNEY 10/01/2012
  • Political and Class Issues Complicate a Colorado Land Dispute 
    HEALY 09/30/2012
  • Conservative ‘Super PACs’ Synchronize Their Messages 
    PETERS 09/25/2012
  • Romney and the Forbes 400 
    NOCERA 09/24/2012
  • With Rich Donors, a More Candid Romney Emerges 
    BARBARO & PARKER 09/23/2012
  • Voter Harassment, Circa 2012 
    EDITORIAL 09/22/2012
  • In Midtown, Taking Aim at Occupy Wall St. and Obama 
    HUGHES 09/21/2012
  • The End of a Kansas Tradition: Moderation 
    COHEN 09/19/2012
  • Looking, Very Closely, for Voter Fraud 
    SAUL 09/16/2012
  • Fossil Fuel Industry Ads Dominate TV Campaign 
    LIPTON & KRAUSS 09/15/2012
  • Spinning for Dollars 
    KRUGMAN 09/11/2012
  • Priorities USA Action Reports Record Monthly Donations 
    CONFESSORE 09/04/2012
  • Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball 
    DOWD 09/02/2012
  • Excluded From Inclusion 
     BRUNI 09/02/2012
  • Koch Opens Up About His Financing of ‘Super PACs’ 
    CONFESSORE 08/30/2012
  • Lines Blur Between Republican Party and ‘Super PACs’ at Convention 
    CONFESSORE 08/30/2012
  • Military Spending on Biofuels Draws Fire 
    CARDWELL 8/27/12
  • Before the Convention, a Hometown Rally for Ryan 
    GABRIEL 8/27/12
  • For Big Givers, Cash and Clout Arrive Together 
    CONFESSORE 8/26/12
  • For Ry Cooder, a Dog’s Life and a Deal With the Devil 
    McKINLEY 8/24/12
  • New Ads Attack the Koch Brothers 
    WHEATON 8/21/12
  • Romney Gains Huge Cash Advantage Over Obama 
    CONFESSORE & WILLIS 8/21/12
  • Fight the System, but Know How to Make It Work 
    KAZIN 8/21/12
  • Judicial Elections and the Bottom Line 
    EDITORIAL 8/20/12
  • Ryan on Ticket Focuses Both Campaigns on Turnout 
    (REPRINT FROM BLOOMBERG) 8/19/12
  • Romney Attends Two Fund-Raisers in the Hamptons 
    WHEATON 8/18/12
  • Ryan Has Kept Close Ties to Donors on the Right 
    CONFESSORE 8/14/12
  • Conservative Star’s Small-Town Roots 
    STEINHAUER, RUTENBERG, McINTIRE & STOLBERG 8/13/12
  • The Romney Package 
    KELLER 8/12/12
  • Kiss Babies, Dodge Scandal, Praise the Lord 
    SCOTT 8/9/12
  • Groups’ Campaign Spending Scrutinized in New York 
    CONFESSORE 8/9/12
  • Obama to Make Three-Day Campaign Swing Through Iowa 
    BAKER 8/7/12
  • Americans for Prosperity Begins $25 Million Anti-Obama Ad Campaign 
    PETERS 8/7/12
  • Outside Cash in Missouri Race Could Act as National Model 
    WEISMAN 8/6/12
  • Former Citigroup Manager Cleared in Mortgage Securities Case. 
    LATTMAN 8/1/12
  • Political Fortunetelling 
    BRUNI 7/29/12
  • Where’s the Outrage? 
    BLOW 7/28/12
  • The Recycling Reflex 
    BORNSTEIN 7/26/12
  • Loading the Climate Dice 
    KRUGMAN 7/23/12
  • If Little Else, Banker’s Trial May Show Wall St. Foolishness 
    DAVIDOFF 7/18/12
  • How Much Has Citizens United Changed the Political Game? Bai, New York Times 
    BAI 7/17/12
  • The Week in Political Pictures: July 8-July 14 
    (SLIDESHOW) 7/15/12
  • Mitt Romney’s Hamptons Weekend 
    ROSENTHAL 7/10/12
  • Two Guys Made a Web Site, and This Is What They Got 
    CARR 7/10/12
  • Classy 
    KRUGMAN 7/9/12
  • Romney Mines the Hamptons for Campaign Cash 
    BARBARO and WHEATON 7/8/12
  • Why Senator McConnell Is So Nervous 
    EDITORIAL 7/8/12
  • Groups Shield Political Gifts of Businesses 
    CONFESSORE & McINTIRE 7/8/12
  • On Tricky Terrain of Class, Contrasting Paths 
    STEVENSON 7/8/12
  • The $3 Million Weekend 
    RUTENBERG 7/7/12
  • Can the Democrats Catch Up in the Super-PAC Game? 
    DRAPER 7/5/12
  • For Attorneys General, Long Shot Brings Payoffs 
    SACK & LICHTBLAU 7/1/12
  • 501(c) Mischief 
    ROSENTHAL 6/28/12
  • Inquiry Looks Into a Shield for Donors in Elections 
    CONFESSORE 6/27/12
  • Cato Institute and Koch Brothers Reach Agreement 
    LICHTBLAU 6/26/12
  • HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ as a Map for CNN 
    CARR 6/25/12
  • What Sheldon Adelson Wants New York Times 
    EDITORIAL 6/24/12
  • For Wealthy Romney Donors, Up Close and Personal Access 
    BARBARO 6/23/12
  • New Ads Trade Shots on the Economy 
    PETERS 6/21/12
  • 2012’s Financial Free-for-All 
    BRUNI 6/17/12
  • New G.O.P. Help From Casino Mogul 
    CONFESSORE 6/17/12
  • McConnell Accuses Obama and Aides of Schemes to Curtail Free Speech 
    WEISMAN 6/16/12
  • Campaign Aid Is Now Surging Into 8 Figures 
    CONFESSORE 6/14/12
  • How Broccoli Landed on Supreme Court Menu 
    STEWART 6/14/12
  • Yes, Bob Kerrey Wants to Go Back to Washington 
    BAI 6/12/12
  • Campaigns Blitz 9 Swing States in a Battle of Ads 
    PETERS 6/8/12
  • The Message From Wisconsin 
    EDITORIAL 6/7/12
  • Wisconsin Vote Underscores Challenges for Democrats 
    SHEAR 6/6/12
  • Red, Blue and Purple: Hollywood Tries Bipartisan Bashing 
    CIEPLY 6/2/12
  • In a Town on an Upswing, Romney Brings a Message of Economic Woe 
    BARBARO 5/30/12
  • How Did Wisconsin Become the Most Politically Divisive Place in America? 
    KAUFMAN  5/22/12
  • Fund-Raising for Romney Eats Into Obama’s Edge 
    CONFESSORE & McGINTY 5/22/12
  • Rival Views of the Fight for the House 
    SHEAR 5/17/12
  • Presidential Ad Wars Kick Into Full Swing 
    PETERS 5/17/12
  • Obama Campaign Announces Raising $43.6 Million in April 
    SHEAR 5/16/12
  • On Our Radar: Lugar, the G.O.P. and Climate Change 
    GREEN BLOG 5/10/12
  • After Spending Freely, Liberal Town Faces Fight on Frugality 
    ZERNIKE 5/8/12
  • Koch Gives $35 Million to Smithsonian Natural History Museum 
    COHEN 5/4/12
  • Obama Spot Offers a Rebuttal and a Jab at Romney 
    CALMES 5/2/12
  • Obama Ad Attacks Romney on Job Creation 
    PETERS 5/1/12
  • Recall Election Tests Strategies for November 
    RUTENBERG and GREENHOUSE 4/28/12
  • Conservative Groups Spending Heavily in Bid to Win a Senate Majority 
    PETERS 4/23/12
  • The Provocateur 
    CARR 4/13/12
  • In Cash Push, 2 Campaigns Likely to Reject Public Funds 
     CONFESSORE 4/13/12
  • New Labor Effort Looks to Counter Republican Groups 
    SHEAR 4/12/12
  • Good Friday Food Links 
    BITTMAN 4/7/12
  • Why the Old-School Music Snob Is the Least Cool Kid on Twitter New York Times 
    MOLOTKOW 4/7/12
  • The Right Flames the Volt New York Times 
    NOCERA 4/6/12
  • Graphic: The Billionaires’ Club 
    PROTESS 4/5/12
  • Suppress the Vote! 
    ARKEDIS and LEWIS 3/30/12
  • Lobbyists, Guns and Money 
    KRUGMAN 3/25/12
  • Obama Campaign Fears Uphill Climb Raising ‘Super PAC’ Money 
    CONFESSORE and LUO 3/13/12
  • Labor Leaders Plan to Apply New Clout in Effort for Obama 
    GREENHOUSE 3/11/12
  • Peter Marino Likes Playing Bad Cop 
    GOLDMAN 3/9/12
  • White House Works to Shape Debate Over Health Law 
    PEAR 3/9/12
  • Tea Party Movement Takes the Long View New York Times 
    STEVENSON 3/9/12
  • Cato Institute Sends S.O.S. via the Web 
    LICHTBLAU 3/8/12
  • The Koch Brothers, the Cato Institute and Why Nations Fail 
    JOHNSON 3/8/12
  • Cato Institute Caught in Rift Over Direction 
    LICHTBLAU 3/6/12
  • Sorting Through the Aftermath of Private Equity Deals 
    DEALBOOK 2/29/12
  • Kooky Oscar Moments That Didn’t Involve Kim Jong-il’s Ashes 
    RYZIK 2/29/12
  • The Obama Camp vs. the Koch Brothers 
    CALMES 2/29/12
  • Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science 
    GILLIS and KAUFMAN 2/16/12
  • The Big Money Behind State Laws 
    EDITORIAL 2/13/12
  • A Wealthy Backer Likes the Odds on Santorum 
     CONFESSORE 2/9/12
  • Showing Their Colors 
    MORRIS 2/9/12
  • Met Aims to Build Itself a Museum-Quality Plaza 
    VOGEL 2/7/12
  • Gingrich Patron Could Have a Plan B: Romney 
    ZELENY and RUTENBERG 2/4/12
  • Rich Patrons Are Major Source of Romney’s Cash 
    CONFESSORE 2/1/12
  • Marco Rubio Won’t Be V.P. 
    GOLDMAN 1/26/12
  • The Early Word: Tricky Terrain 
    SMITH 01/24/12
  • Obama Fights Back Against Koch Brothers in New Ad 
    PETERS 01/19/12
  • As Attacks Heat Up, Romney’s Lead Narrows in S.C. 
    RUTENBERG & PARKER 01/08/12
  • Happy Lobbyists, Unhappy Citizens 
    EDSALL 01/08/12
  • The Strange Death of the Republican Moderate 
    NOAH 01/05/12
  • Baffling Reader Correspondence of the Week 
    KAMINER 01/05/12
  • Politics en Pointe 
    KAMINER 01/01/12
  • Don’t Forget Wingnut Welfare 
    KRUGMAN 12/26/11
  • Resisting Renaming Of Miami Museum 
    POGREBIN 12/07/11
  • TV Attack Ads Aim at Obama Early and Often 
    PETERS 11/27/11
  • Loudly Protesting Park Eviction, if Not Outside Mayor’s Window as Planned 
    GOLDSTEIN and MOYNIHAN 11/21/11
  • Don’t Call Herman a Monster 
    BLOW 11/06/11
  • Romney Debt Plan Includes Medicare Overhaul and Social Security Changes 
    PARKER 11/05/11
  • Cain Stands By the Koch Brothers 
    SHEAR 11/05/11
  • The Early Word: Flying on Another’s Dime 
    HUTTEMAN 11/04/11
  • Dr. Muller’s Findings 
    EDITORIAL 11/04/11
  • For a Close Aide to Herman Cain, Scrutiny Comes on Two Fronts 
    GABRIEL 11/04/11
  • Cain to Review Links to a Nonprofit 
    CONFESSORE 11/02/11
  • Graduates Versus Oligarchs 
    KRUGMAN 11/02/11
  • Another Question, This Time Financial, for Herman 
    CONFESSORE 11/01/11
  • Outside Groups Eclipsing G.O.P. as Hub of Campaigns 
    CONFESSORE 10/31/11
  • Climate Study Does Not Placate Skeptics 
    KAUFMAN 10/21/11
  • Skeptic Talking Point Melts Away as an Inconvenient Physicist Confirms Warming 
    REVKIN 10/21/11
  • With Three 9s, Cain Refigured Math for Taxes 
    GABRIEL and SAULNY 10/13/11
  • Finally Making Sense on Wall Street 
    BITTMAN 10/11/11
  • A Tea Party Darling’s Offer on Social Security 
    ZERNIKE 9/29/11
  • Kings of the Hill, Top of the Forbes Heap 
    HABERMAN 9/22/11
  • American Theocracy Revisited 
    DOUTHAT 8/28/11
  • Power to the Corporation! 
    DOWD 8/13/11
  • Political Advocacy Groups Denied Tax-Exempt Status 
    STROM 7/19/11
  • Cash Tempts the Ivory Tower’s Guardians 
    GUTTENPLAN 7/17/11
  • A Climate Skeptic Builds a Following of True Believers 
    LEHMANN 7/13/11
  • I.R.S. Drops Audits of Political Donors 
    STROM 7/8/11
  • Should Justices Keep Their Opinions to Themselves? 
    SHESOL 6/28/11
  • Fragments Split the Tea Party 
    HUNT 6/13/11
  • Governor Takes N.J. Out of Cap-And-Trade System 
    MARSHALL 5/27/11
  • In Right’s Energy-Subsidy Clash, Shades of Koch vs. Pickens 
    SCHOR  5/16/11
  • Sex, the Koch Brothers and Academic Freedom 
    FISH 5/16/11
  • Economics for Sale 
    FOLBRE 5/16/11
  • I.R.S. Moves to Tax Gifts to Groups Active in Politics 
    STROM 5/13/11
  • Buying Influence at Universities 
    RAMPELL 5/12/11
  • Recuse Me 
    GREENHOUSE 5/4/11
  • Liberal Group’s Video Assails Koch Brothers 
    RUTENBERG 5/4/11
  • Without the Campaign Donors, This Wouldn’t Be Possible 
    EDITORIAL 4/30/11

    (Correction Appended)

  • Groups Form to Aid Democrats With Anonymous Money 
    RUTENBERG 4/29/11
  • Civic Group Says That Concessions Are Needed From the Construction Unions 
    BAGLI 4/24/11
  • Democrats Sue to Force U.S. Election Agency to Reveal Political Donations 
    LICHTBLAU 4/21/11
  • The Koch Brothers and Climate Science Redux 
    GILLIS 4/18/11
  • New Groups Form to Raise Millions for Democrats 
    SHEAR 4/15/11
  • Billionaires Unleashed 
    EGAN 4/7/11
  • Cuomo’s Centrism Draws Praise but Stirs Suspicion 
    CONFESSORE 4/6/11
  • Bring Donors Out of the Shadows 
    CALLAHAN 4/3/11

    (Correction Appended)

  • The Truth, Still Inconvenient 
    KRUGMAN 4/3/11
  • Republicans Ride Theories of the Fringe 
    HUNT 4/3/11
  • The Mural Vanishes 
    CATAPANO 4/1/11
  • Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party 
    MCINTIRE 3/30/11
  • Best Political Quotations of the Weekend 
    SHEAR 3/28/11