Both points are correct. GE and its senior executives, as well as Comcast, have spread their money around, at least according to FAIR's analysis. I'm sympathetic to their point that having parent companies donate while barring on-air employees isn't the most consistent policy, but I'd rather do something about media companies and donations to those who they could be reasonably expected to cover. Not that it will happen, but that's the breaks.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4192 David ________________________________ From: Wesley McGee <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 4:25:14 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Olby suspended indefinitely On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:16 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: Well, NewsCorp contributed $1 million to a Republican group earlier this year. No way would they crack down on their staff for similar stuff. > >David > Doesn't General Electric also donate to political causes, too? Or is it that NewsCorp has been more one sided and generous in its donation. ________________________________ From: donz5 <[email protected]> > >Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Olby suspended indefinitely > > >The revelations not yet spread from their initial sources: > >March 2006: Joe Scarborough contributes $4,200 to Oregon House >Republican candidate Derrick Kitts. MSNBC's rationale for no penalty: >"Kitts is an old friend of Joe's. Joe hosts an opinion program and is >not a news reporter." > >http://www.dailykos.com/ > Aside from the friend rationale, the other two reasons would apply to Olbermann as well... unless they believe the fiction that Countdown is straight news. >August 2010: Sean Hannity contributes $5,000 to Michelle Bachmann. Not >a peep from Fox New management. > >http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/09/23/bachmann_hannity_donation > ------------------------------------------------- And to think, MSNBC just introduced that expensive new image campaign too -- "Lean Forward". Maybe they should have used their alternate choice, "Keeping it Real". "Yes, we're a liberal network. We're just keeping it real, yo!" -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
