Posted on 08/17/2010 9:57:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog
News Corp., owner of the Fox network, Fox News and newspapers including the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, gave $1 million in late June to the Republican Governors Association, making it one of the largest corporate donors to the GOP group this election season.
The donation, disclosed in Internal Revenue Service filings, marks a shift for the media giant, which traditionally has given smaller sums to candidates and committees and spread them relatively evenly between the two parties.
News Corp. spokesman Jack Horner said the contribution was intended to promote the company's core beliefs. "News Corporation has always believed in the power of free markets and in organizations like the RGA, which have a pro-business agenda and support our priorities at this most critical time for our economy," he said.
He added, "The corporate donation has no impact on the reporting activities of our newsgathering organizations. There is a strict wall between business and editorial and the corporate office does not consult with our newsgathering organizations ... before making donations."
News Corp. and other network owners are tussling with cable companies over licensing fees cable companies pay to broadcast networks' channels. Amid lobbying in Washington, the fight has in some cases flared up at the state level.
Between 2002 and 2009, News Corp. gave $86,000 to the RGA and the Republican State Leadership Committee, according to IRS records. In the same span, the company gave $60,000 to the Democratic Attorneys General Association.
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At least someone knows to keep it out of Steele’s hands...
Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp. as well. Interesting that it was WSJ reported it.
I can see how they want to back a winner but this seems stupid for a new group to get involved. Murdock should have done this himself without the company being involved. Now the Repubs will be smeared by taking Saudi money.
LOL, yeah, well, Jack, uh, just drop it. Let's just say we're all glad you didn't give the million to the Rats and leave it at that, okay?
This is not the RNC which is headed by Steele. It is the Republican Governors Association headed by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.
Who gives a damn how it looks? The MSM has been giving free campaign propaganda to the Democrats for years without regret. We are way too sensitive about how things might look, making us patsies to the political correctness ploy. The Left has effectively silenced us by using that tactic. Enough is enough!
“Is this for real? “Strict wall” or not, it looks terrible. Corporations in the news reporting business shouldn’t be making donations to any political party. At the very least, I hope Steele & Co. don’t go off on another bondage club spree with the money. “
Looks like the liberal mindset has infested FR. What a ridiculous thing to write... How many conservatives or independents care at all about this? None. Only liberals like yourself care!
WaPo Highlights Dem Outrage at Fox Donations to GOP, Downplays Reality of 50-50 Contributions
News Corp. spokesman Jack Horner said, "The corporate donation has no impact on the reporting activities of our newsgathering organizations. There is a strict wall between business and editorial and the corporate office does not consult with our newsgathering organizations ... before making donations."That is real important - in a world where pigs aviate.Freedom of the press does not imply that "the press" is a single entity, nor that that entity is objective. The First Amendment was written and ratified at a time when newspapers were usually openly partisan, and in fact were as much about the perspectives (plural) of of their respective printers than anything else. How could it have been otherwise, when the printers did not have much news which their readers could not learn first from other sources? Most newspapers were weeklies, not dailies.
"The press" became unified under the homogenizing influence of the Associated Press starting in 1848.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam SmithThe homogeneity and pretensions to objectivity of modern journalism are the result of "a conspiracy against the public." The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.
I think Murdoch is interested in making money first and the news business second. Some of the drug dealers and foreign influence peddlers who attended coffees in the WH with Slick Willie, for the valuable photo with him for use in expanding their image, for a contribution of $50,000 or more said they knew how politics in America worked, cash money! It is a shame that is true but it seems to be. That is especially true when the Democrats are in office.
Murdoch and other businessmen give to those in positions to affect their lives like the heads of important committees and subcommittees. Of course Pelosi and Reid are the ultimate arbiters of which legislation gets considered.
He also knows that this group of Democrats is about to destroy the largest market of all, the USA and they must be stopped.
The Left, who control the Democrat Party, media, unions, etc., are interested in only one thing - power! To get that power they think, ala Saul Alinsky, that total destruction of America as it is is necessary. They simply want the power and the guns to do their will, even if they aren’t sure what that will is.
To assist that aim they want total destruction of all opposition and opposing voices are chief among those to be destroyed. The Republican Party is next.
You’re an Obama troll. Get lost!
I saw on another thread you support some of the ideas behind the democrat Net Neutrality bill. That’s what tipped me off that you’re a liberal.
It’s true, you are for Net Neutrality. And you’re against political free speech for corporations. You are a lib, pure and simple.
Embrace your liberalism, wear it proudly my liberal FRiend!
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