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Posted on 09/09/2015 1:07:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The partnership between NBC News and TargetSmart is intended to "enhance election coverage and study the voting process in America in depth," according to a Tuesday press release from NBC.
NBC News is partnering with TargetSmart, a political data firm founded by Democrats that was also hired by the Democratic National Committee to provide voter information for the 2016 election.
The partnership between NBC News and TargetSmart is intended to "enhance election coverage and study the voting process in America in depth," according to a Tuesday press release from NBC.
Data provided by TargetSmart, which was founded in 2006 by veteran Democratic operatives Jeff Ferguson and Paula Kowalczuk, will allow NBC News "to perform non-partisan analysis, research voting habits, and identify voting trends at the state and local levels," the release said.
But TargetSmart is also in business with the DNC, all the way through the 2016 election. In August 2014, the data firm announced that it had been hired by the DNC to "to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot and across the nation." Introducing IBM LinuxONE. Take Linux in the Enterprise to a New Level. ㅤㅤ Promoted by IBM
TargetSmart's CEO Drew Brighton said at the time, "We continue to enhance and innovate the Democratic Party's data infrastructure, which will allow the Democratic Party to maintain their strategic advantage …"
The matchup between NBC's news division and a Democratic outfit could raise questions about the network's political coverage of the 2016 race. But a spokesperson for NBC News dismissed any idea of impartiality.
"TargetSmart serves as an aggregator to provide public, nonpartisan voter data," the spokesperson said in an email to the Washington Examiner media desk. "Our election team will use it for our own independent analysis."
Hardly news.
The MSM is virtually an appendage of the Democrat Party.
Yes sir. As long as they say so.
It’s newsworthy because they are not usually so brazen about it. It’s the brazen-ness that makes it news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3334925/posts?page=4#4
Trapped Behind Enemy Lines >> D1 >> MarvinStinson
Out of the closet, full frontal, in your face bias.
“The matchup between NBC’s news division and a Democratic outfit could raise questions about the network’s political coverage of the 2016 race”
There are no questions that need to be raised. SOP
State: Email czar’s donations to Clinton have ‘no relevance’
By Pete Kasperowicz • 9/9/15
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-email-czars-donations-to-clinton-have-no-relevance/article/2571688
The State Department on Wednesday dismissed the idea that its new transparency czar should be disqualified from helping to decide whether and how to release Hillary Clinton’s emails, even though she contributed to Clinton’s White House campaign.
State on Tuesday named Janice Jacobs as its new lead official on improving the process of preserving records and deciding how records will be disclosed to the public. But just hours later, it became clear that Jacobs donated $2,700 to Clinton — the most allowed under the law — just a few weeks ago.
That donation raised immediate questions about whether Jacobs is the right person to oversee the ongoing release of Clinton’s emails. On Wednesday, State spokesman John Kirby admitted that Jacobs will likely play a role as Clinton’s emails are released.
“I would expect that she will have views on how that’s being done,” he said. “So I can’t rule out the fact that she might not be examining some of the documents.”
But at the same time, Kirby rejected the notion that Jacobs’ support for Clinton creates a conflict of interest in the effort to learn more about Clinton’s role and reaction to the 2012 attack in Benghazi.
“The fact that she made a donation to Hillary Clinton, there’s no relevance on her ability to do this job, to do it objectively, fairly,” he said.
“I think we understand how some people might have that perception,” he said. “That said, again, Ambassador Jacobs was chosen for her exemplary service, particularly in this kind of area, and the secretary [John Kerry] is 100 percent convinced that she’s the right person for the job and will do the best job at it.”
“There’s no conflict of interest... none at all,” he added.
The Republican National Committee disagreed, and said giving Jacobs any role in releasing Clinton’s emails is a huge mistake.
Now its official.
And a quick search on NBC News’ site reveals zero reference to their association with TargetSmart. But there’ll be no bias...
Isn’t that the truth. (wanted to make more comments to you)
It is rather interesting that it was deemed necessary to tell us this. Is the media so clueless that they think we don’t consider the major media players to be the in-house media wing of the Democrat party?
Which should mean at the minimum, no debates or interviews wit the candidates.
https://twitter.com/_TargetSmart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
TargetSmart @_TargetSmart · Aug 25
Proud of the work we did with @TheDemocrats on Voter File 2.0, it’s taking campaign data to the next level! http://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/dnc-launch-voter-targeting-effort-voter-file-experian-targetsmart-summer-meetings/300082/ …
April 1, 2006
TargetSmart Founded in Washington, D.C.
TargetSmart Communications co-founded by two long-time Democratic political technology consultants (Jeff Ferguson and Paula Kowalczuk), and two consumer data industry professionals (Steve and Drew Brighton). This partnership merged political data know-how with consumer data and direct marketing disciplines, which still today serves as the driving force behind TargetSmart’s success.
http://targetsmart.com/the-team/
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