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Fox News gives a million dollars to the GOP to defeat Democratic governor nominees
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Anonymous
| Fair and balance, what a joke. |
Anonymous
| FYI Viacom, the parent of CBS has also given money to Political Parties as has GE, the parent of NBC. |
Anonymous
| Right, and to be precise, News Corp, NOT Fox News specifically, made the donations. News Corp is the parent company of Fox News, Sky News, and tons of newspapers. |
Anonymous
| Free press, my ass. |
Anonymous
But since Rupert Murdoch exerts control over the editorial slant of all of them, it's pretty much the same thing. This isn't just a rollup of media holdings. |
Anonymous
Yes, the conservative fact checkers are quick to point this out. But what they aren't saying is that these companies are splitting their giving across both parties, somewhere between 50/50 and 60/40. In other words, they are funding candidates they feel might be helpful to their interests, and those people exist on both sides of the aisle. Murdoch is doing something entirely different. He isn't funding people who might be favorable to media companies. He's almost exclusively funding the Republican Party. That might not bother me if this was (1) not a media company, and (2) controlled by someone who is not even American. |
Anonymous
FWIW Murdoch has been an American citizen for 25 years. But I totally agree with (1). |
Anonymous
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Sort of. He is, but I don't know how American he is. He only changed citizenship to get around the law barring foreign ownership of US TV Stations in the first place.
So maybe his attorneys filed papers and he stuck his hand in the air at the right time. But would you think of him as American just because he changed citizenship to consummate a business transaction? |
Anonymous
I think that's the point of the Fourteenth Amendment: All persons born or naturalized ... I think there is a strong enough case against a news organization being a mouthpiece for a political party that it is not worth going off on the tangent of who is American enough to do this or that. |
Anonymous
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/17/fox-news-takes-heat-for-news-corporations-gop-donation/
This give details of all donations by Time Warner(CNN), Viacom (CBS), GE (NBC) and Disney (ABC) to both Democratic and Republican groups. It also details donations to Democratic PAC's by News Corp. GE has given more money to the Democrats than the Republicans in this election cycle. Please do research before you spit out the MSNBC talking points. |
Anonymous
I didn't read MSNBC. I read the Center for Responsive Politics. But since you want to do the numbers, this is the current total dollars (PAC money + 527) by media company for the 2010 Election Cycle. All numbers are in (000's) Comcast: $1396 Dem, $1092 Republican. 56% Democrat 44% Republican GE: $1309 Dem $1000 Republican 57% Democrat 43% Republican News Corp: $153 Dem $1165 Republican 88% Republican 12% Democrat Time Warner $146 Dem $71 Republican 67% Democrat 33% Republican Walt Disney $144 Dem $137 Republican 51% Republican 49% Republican So basically: GE and Comcast gave in exact proportion to the makeup of the current Congress. Time Warner gave Democrat but they barely gave money all. Disney was exactly even but gave very little money. News Corp is almost entirely Republican. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/08/news-corps-million-dollar-donation.html "Not Just News Corp.: Media Companies Have Long Made Political Donations" |
Anonymous
| I guess this kills the theory that Fox News is supporting the Tea Parties. |
Anonymous
No, it provides further evidence for the fact that Fox is a right wing propaganda mill. |
Anonymous
Huh? Tea Party isn't an actual political party. "Tea Party Movement" candidates are running in Republican primaries. |
Anonymous
| How is this different from Disney (parent of ABC News) giving money to the Democratic party? |