Posted on 09/07/2008 8:03:13 AM PDT by granite
And their explanations, from Yikes! to Theyre all in somebodys pocket
The following 143 journalists made campaign contributions from 2004 through the first quarter of 2007, according to Federal Election Commission records studied by MSNBC.com
Television:
(D) ABC News, Mary Fulginiti, "Primetime" correspondent. Click for details.
(D) ABC affiliate in Boston, WCVB, Sangita Chandra, producer. Click for details.
(D) ABC affiliate in Wichita, KAKE, Susan Peters, anchor. Click for details.
(D) CBS News, Serena Altschul, correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details.
(D) CBS News, Edward H. Forgotson Jr., producer, "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details.
(D) CBS affiliate in Boston, WBZ, Liz Walker, newsmagazine host. Click for details.
(D) CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, KCBS, Claudia Bill, news writer. Click for details.
(D) CBS affiliate in Memphis, WREG, Markova Reed, anchors the morning and noon news. Click for details.
(D) CNN, Guy Raz, Jerusalem correspondent, now defense correspondent for National Public Radio. Click for details.
(R) CW affiliate in Chicago, WGN, Jay Congdon, news producer. Click for details.
(R) CW affiliate in Los Angeles, KTLA, Diana Chi, news writer. Click for details.
(R) Fox News Channel, Ann Stewart Banker, producer for Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor." Click for details.
(D) Fox News Channel, Codie Brooks, researcher for Brit Hume's "Special Report." Click for details.
(D) Fox affiliate in Omaha, KPTM, Calvert Collins, reporter. Click for details.
(D) Fox affiliate in Minneapolis, KMSP, Alix Kendall, morning anchor. Click for details.
(D) Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., WTTG, Laura Evans, anchor. Click for details.
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That’s a great story. MSNBC did something useful.
Glad I did not post it in Breaking News.
Wow! Not even close for republican donations vs.democrats.
About 8% republican?
The list of those who made in kind donations to the Obama candidacy would be far longer.
I am shocked.
Not surprising news other than MSNBC did the job...
We have all known here and elsewhere the MSM are in the Democratic pocket for whatever serves them best.
Again thank God for the internet.
I’m surprised at the Ds next to the WSJ names.
But the media isn’t lib biased. LOL
I notice NBC and MSNBC are conspicuously absent form this list.
Go back and look closely at the actual site. You’ll get a slight surprise.
Journalists put trust in transparency
http://www.ilcampaign.org/press/news/illinois/2008/1-25-08Journalist.html
Ive asked my wife to get separate checks for her donations because I dont want my name to appear on checks she signs and sends to causes and politicians.
Timothy J. McNulty X-Public Editor The Chicago Tribune
Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1
By WILLIAM TATE | Investors Business Daily July 23, 2008
The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money.
Even the Associated Press no bastion of conservatism has considered, at least superficially, the media's favoritism for Barack Obama. It's time to revisit media bias.
True to form, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more newsworthy than the other. In other words, there is no media bias. It is we, the hoi polloi, who reveal our bias by questioning the neutrality of these learned professionals in their ivory-towered newsrooms.
Big Media applies this rationalization to every argument used to point out bias. "It's not a result of bias," they say. "It's a matter of news judgment."
An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 ratio over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .
Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans a margin greater than 10-to-1. An even greater disparity, 20-to-1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.
Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10-to-1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14-to-1 ratio.
The contributions add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.
What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).
Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.
We've gone past the point of no return when reporters think that MoveOn.org is nonpartisan. Dialog is no longer possible.
ABC forbids political activity by journalists.
"A friend asked me to contribute" to Richardson, Fulginiti said. "This is not a reflection of my political views. Look, I've made a mistake here. I'm a legal analyst this is all new to me. I have been politically active in the past. This is when I was just starting out at ABC. I was still thinking as a lawyer."
Uhm... remind me not to hire you as a "legal analyst", much less a "lawyer"...
.. unless it's on-the-air biased coverage.
“.. unless it’s on-the-air biased coverage.”
Yes. In other words, don’t do anything outside of work that might lead people to believe that our extreme left wing bias is anything but “neutral”...
ANd some of those Republican donors say they will never do it again, so they arent really Republicans. Only 153 names but that is pretty much damning for the pretense of unbiased reporting.
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