Posted on 08/27/2004 7:09:02 AM PDT by jmstein7
The New York Times Has Strong Ties to the Kerry Campaign
By Jonathan M. Stein
The New York Times, which advertises itself as containing “All The News That’s Fit To Print” – a slogan that suggests objectivity – has myriad and dubious financial and political ties to John Kerry’s presidential campaign. These links between Kerry and the Times seriously call into question the objectivity of that allegedly impartial media outlet – an outlet with enormous power and influence over public opinion.
According to major news outlets, including the New York Times, the fact that a major Republican donor has contributed money to the group known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth calls into question the impartiality of that group and ties it to the Republicans. If that is indeed the case – that an exchange of funds between an entity and a partisan contributor dispositively links the entity to a partisan cause – then, by their own logic, the New York Times is unquestionably linked to the Kerry campaign and other far-left groups. To understand the severe implications of such a link, one must fully comprehend the power and reach of the New York Times.
As of March of 2004, the Times had a total circulation volume of 1,133,763 copies daily. However, the circulation volume of the paper itself does not reflect the paper’s total impact on the marketplace of information. The New York Times Company publishes The New York Times, The Boston Globe and 16 other newspapers; owns eight network-affiliated television stations and two New York radio stations; and has more than 40 Web sites, including NYTimes.com and Boston.com. Columns appearing in the NYT are syndicated throughout this extensive media network. Further, network and cable news anchors tend to lead with stories substantively taken from the front page of the NYT. Thus, the reach of the NYT and its incalculable power to influence the marketplace of information and ideas evince a media juggernaut beyond that of any other single information source in existence. More salient, though, is the fact that the Times, as an alleged media outlet, escapes regulation under McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform.
The network of financial connections between the Kerry campaign and the Times is extensive. Although the New York Times has an allegedly official “ban” on political campaign contributions, a simple search on “opensecrets.org” reveals that at least two editors in the employ of the New York Times, Christine Muhlke and Elizabeth Stewart, have personally contributed at least $1,500 to John Kerry’s campaign efforts. These are individuals who have direct influence on the selection of stories that run in the Times and its companion magazine – and they are on the record giving money out of their own pockets directly to the Kerry campaign. At least two other employees of the Times – Alan Flippen and William Usuik – have contributed another $1,250 to John Kerry. Alternatively, not a single employee of the Times has contributed to President Bush or any other Republican candidate or organization. This fact, i.e. the fact that influential individuals working for the New York Times have contributed money directly to John Kerry, and John Kerry alone, is quite troubling and seriously calls into question the objectivity of that news outlet. Further, the financial connection between John Kerry, the Democrats, and the New York Times goes beyond mere employees.
The New York Times Company is effectively owned and controlled by the Sulzberger family. At lease one Sulzberger family member, Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger (who owns, de jure, approximately five-percent of the New York Times voting shares, or over about seven million shares), has donated the maximum ($2,000) directly to John Kerry (on March 8, 2004). Dr. Sulzberger has also contributed $5,000 to “Victory Campaign 2004” (which finds radical leftist 527 groups such as Americans Coming Together and The Media Fund) and $20,000 to the Democrat National Committee (DNC Services Corp.). So, in the aggregate, an individual exercising de jure ownership/control over the New York Times Company has donated in excess of $27,000 to John Kerry and other far-left efforts to defeat the President.
The New York Times, in major stories, has used donor-donee connections to call into question the credibility and objectivity of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Therefore, in all fairness, the same standard should be applied to the Times in assessing its credibility and objectivity. When applied to the New York Times, the financial connections between that media outlet, John Kerry, and other far-left groups organized to defeat the President raises serious doubts about the objectivity and credibility of the Times itself.
Defund the co-conspirators! Economic Power bump!
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/index.asp
For fun put in any newspaper for occupation. Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, etc.
Outstanding!
BTTT
As accurate as the chart is, it is still funny that we are responding to the silliness that the NY Times has put forth with is "Web of Connections" chart. Good to post it, for sure; but sad that there isn't any equality at the NY Times...none.
"MEDIA WING OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY" BUMP
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You can. See my prior post in the thread. The results are there.
Bump!
This term is even better than Rush's "partisan media" characterizations.
Bump!
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For some reason a lot of conservatives never learn this key lesson in battling the lunatic lefties.
So they subscribe to all of the vile left newspapers, weekly lying magazines and watch ABCNNBC BS news. Their feeble excuse, I need to know what they say. I have a two letter reply to that lame excuse, BS!
I cancelled our subcriptions to these vile publications for the most part in the 1980/90's. I even cancelled my WSJ subscription a few years ago after a series of vile opeds by Al Hunt. I told them that as long as Al Hunt got a salary from them, I would never by their newspaper.
At this time the Chicago Tribune mother corporation which also owns the LA Slimes in financial trouble with both newspapers losing ad $'s and subscriptions. The NY Slimes has been on a slide for about two years.
We need to abide by your comment/suggestion: Defund the co-conspirators! Economic Power bump!
FReeper jmstein7 is on top things in the Big Apple! Good work.
BTTT
Another brilliant piece by one our wonder young conservatives. ;o)
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Can you imagine the impact of thousands and thousands of Freepers cancelling subscriptions to these vile fish wraps and weekly slur mags and sending half of their savings to Swiftvets and Free Republic with a follow up with their boards and the boards key advertisers?
However, it will not happen. Most Freepers will continue to subscribe and fund the left wing mediots and complain about them.
Excellent! Thanks!
**The New York Times Has Strong Ties to the Kerry Campaign**
Duh--
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