7/25/2008

Dems getting the media money

Conservatives rail against the media for a liberal bias.

With a doubt, the mainstream media - as a whole - do have one sure bias: towards a good scandal, wherever they find it.

There's fuel to make a compelling case for a liberal media bias with examples such as Bill Moyers open leftism and MSNBC having opinion-journalism hosts Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman ANCHOR their election night coverage.

But reports like this one certainly does indicate that of those media members inspire to the point of opening their wallets certainly prefer the Democrats:

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.

In fairness, the obligatory disclaimer:

A few journalists list their employer as an organization like MSNBC, MSNBC.com or ABC News, or report that they're freelancers for the New York Times, or are journalists for Al Jazeera, CNN Turkey, Deutsche Welle Radio or La Republica of Rome (all contributions to Obama). Most report no employer. They're mainly freelancers. That's because most major news organization have policies that forbid newsroom employees from making political donations.

Also, there's this tidbit on contributions from PACs and lobbyists:

And while the money totals pale in comparison to the $9-million-plus that just one union's PACs have spent to get Obama elected, they are more substantial than the amount that Obama has criticized John McCain for receiving from lobbyists: 96 lobbyists have contributed $95,850 to McCain, while Obama - who says he won't take money from PACs or federal lobbyists - has received $16,223 from 29 lobbyists.

We'll have to see a list of who those lobbyists are that gave to Obama.

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