Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies — from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program — that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.
Gove goes on to claim that the authorities and the media have played down the scale of the Islamist terror threat, with those who pose a direct danger wrongly portrayed "as a tiny renegade minority with no important connection to the broader ideological network".
This battle needn't be explicitly ideological: the network has always had a weakness for titillating legal stories and for celebrity misbehavior.
"What's more cynical than forming an ideological news network like Fox and calling it 'fair and balanced'?
As a liberal on a traditional, non-ideological news network, Olbermann breaks this pattern.
The networks' ideological commitment has made it impossible for them to actually create more competition in the news marketplace.
We directly measured ideological homophily in friend networks, and examine the extent to which heterogeneous friends could potentially expose individuals to cross-cutting content.
The plan is to systematically dismantle their networks, whether ideological, financial, political, or religious.
In addition, Mr. Lieberman has used the gospel of the new economy to raise money for similar-thinking Democrats through the New Democrat Network, an ideological political action committee he founded in 1996 with Senator John B. Breaux, the moderate Democrat from Louisiana.
There still seems to exist this very complex network of ideological and cultural norms that still plague our society and that make global misogyny, in my opinion, a great scourge and most pressing issue of our age," Pinto said.
