{"id":183959,"date":"2012-09-23T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/23\/megan-math-is-hard-mcardle-is-worse-than-i-thought\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T02:51:00","slug":"megan-math-is-hard-mcardle-is-worse-than-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/23\/megan-math-is-hard-mcardle-is-worse-than-i-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan “Math is Hard” McArdle Is Worse Than I Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Due diligence, what due diligence?<\/i><\/div>\n

I’ve always thought of her as a partisan hack, but it turns out that it’s worse than that. She is yet another bit of Koch brothers bought and paid for AstroTurf<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Megan McArdle is a Koch-trained conservative activist working as a business journalist and pundit. She earned her MBA from the University of Chicago, received journalism training at the Kochs\u2019 flagship libertarian think-tank, the Institute for Humane Studies, and has used her position at The Atlantic and, most recently, Newsweek\/ The Daily Beast, to run cover for and promote Koch interests and the Republican Party agenda. In early 2009, a GOP outfit backed by the Kochs hailed McArdle for her \u201cleadership role in \u2026 re-branding the Republican party.\u201d McArdle continues to conceal the extent of her deeply conflicted relationships with the Koch influence-peddling machine.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a line between being a hack, and being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n

If you hire someone while they are paid agents of an entity that they cover, you are making the integrity of your news organization a joke.<\/p>\n

I have made the same argument about NPR’s religion reporter<\/a>, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, who interestingly enough is the sister of the multi-millionaire owner of MCardle’s employer The Atlantic<\/i>, David Bradley. (The world is weird that way)<\/p>\n

There are some good people at The Atlantic<\/i>, but even before these revelations, it was clear that giving McArdle a megaphone was a blight on the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due diligence, what due diligence? I’ve always thought of her as a partisan hack, but it turns out that it’s worse than that. She is yet another bit of Koch brothers bought and paid for AstroTurf: Megan McArdle is a Koch-trained conservative activist working as a business journalist and pundit. She earned her MBA from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,974,1129,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hack-journalism","category-journalism","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}