Angry environmental activists say they have more than 70,000 signatures and plan to flood a WGBH trustees meeting next week calling for the ouster of conservative lightning-rod billionaire David Koch from the board — but the public TV and radio station for now is standing by the longtime PBS mega-donor.
“David Koch has essentially dedicated himself — and tens of millions of dollars — to deliberately mislead the public about climate change,” claimed Emily Southard of environmental group Forecast the Facts. “That’s completely incompatible with an organization like WGBH, which is dedicated to public education.”
As long as public education is committed to propaganda, and not actaully discussing science. And what is this horrible science that Koch is accused of promoting?
Koch, a prominent Mitt Romney fundraiser last year, has donated $18.6 million to WGBH since 1982 and $10 million specifically to the science program NOVA, according to Koch Companies spokeswoman Melissa Cohlmia. He’s also one of the station’s 32 trustees.
NOVA? Yeah, that's a pretty radical right wing program, if you're to the left of Ho Chi Minh.
Jason Talbot, who just ended a stint as co-chairman of WGBH’s community advisory board, said, “For me, personally, it’s business and, to me, funding is very difficult to come by. If I was to choose between taking funding from a guy like that and not having NOVA, I would prefer to have NOVA.”
Koch’s reps said he believes in “an open, honest and science-based debate” about climate change, and won’t step down.
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