Patriot Ledger’s Parent Company in bed with Koch Campaign

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Patriot Ledger’s parent company is in bed with the Koch Campaign.
The Patriot Ledger’s parent, New Media Investment Group. is profiting from embattled incumbent Mayor Koch’s campaign fund.
Per a close review of Koch Committee filings with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (“OCPF”), the Ledger’s parent company is profiting from the Koch Committee in ways other than merely to be expected advertising revenue.

Maybe not as massively profitable as certain trucking firms enjoyed last winter working for the Koch Maladministration, but a company emerging from a Chapter 13 reorganization and struggling to report a profit has to grab for what it can.
This profiting is from at least hosting – if not also helping design – the Koch for Koch reelection campaign website via New Media Investments Corporation’s Propel Marketing unit.

Propel is headquartered within the former State Street Campus in North Quincy and is thus but blocks away from duly embattled Mayor Koch’s residence.
Granted, in the often wide-ranging operations of corporate units within major companies in this day and age, this sort of hydra-headed interconnection is to be expected.
Nowhere, however, is there any acknowledgement of this profitable intertwining.
After all, a simple disclosure would clearly appear in order.

This oversight could also explain why the Ledger could perhaps be harder on the Koch Maladministration but has not been, at least not to date.
At the same, the Propel connection could conversely explain why the Koch for Koch website features an old picture of the currently burnt out hulk of the former Quincy Masonic Temple as the site’s featured image for Koch’s vision for the future of Quincy.
The Propel connection could also explain why the Koch for Koch website as well as the rest of the Koch Committee’s e-media are no great shakes.

In any event, there is clearly a solid basis for questioning this heretofore unannounced intertwined financial connection between the Koch Committee and the South Shore broadsheet.
As always, expect Quincy Quarry to present to its growing legions of readers those important – if not also disconcerting – items which other news media all too often fail to present to the public.
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