You don’t get to base decades of electoral strategy on calling a given industry traitorous Jew bastards who hate you and everything you hold dear and then expect them to donate to you.
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My favorite kinds of posts are the ones where I don’t have to click over to an entirely new site in order to understand what the person is talking about. I understand that those involve more work than you may be able to do right now. Is your arm broken? I hope you can type more soon.
My favorite kinds of comments are the ones that involve needless whining because you’re required to do the work of clicking on things, which I know isn’t a particularly common skill on the internet. I understand this requires more work than you may be able to do right now. Are you beset by consumption? I hope your energy and attitude pick up soon.
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.
That’s a crock of shit.
Wow, reporters making donations. And here I thought that newspapers endorsing Bush outnumbered those endorsing Gore by almost 2 to 1 mattered.
>>Are you beset by consumption? I hope your energy and attitude pick up soon.
Perhaps. But that mark’s gonna take some time to heal, first.
Shorter Captain: Oooh, *snap!!!*
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 .
Could we please have a similar analysis of, oh I dunno, oil companies, prison operators, and companies that make things that go fast and blow up (brown) people?
Did I read that chart correctly? Id Fox employees give $0 to the Republicans? WTF? That seems off.
Could we please have a similar analysis of, oh I dunno, oil companies, prison operators, and companies that make things that go fast and blow up (brown) people?
Or even better, how about an analysis of media executives and media company donations to 527’s, lobbyists, and party campaigns.
Did I read that chart correctly? Id Fox employees give $0 to the Republicans? WTF? That seems off.
They don’t make direct donations, preferring instead to make payment in-kind.
Jesus, Eileen, did you really even have to read the story to know (basically) what Jesse was talking about? Are you new to the blogosphere or something?
According to the article, most of the journalists were freelancers. If you don’t have a regular paycheck, supporting a social safety net kind of makes sense, huh?
Did I read that chart correctly? Id Fox employees give $0 to the Republicans? WTF? That seems off.
LOL. Good pickup. Anyone who thinks literally no one at Fox News donated to a Republican, raise your hand. I thought so. Same with Time and the Washington Post.
McCain has spent the entire election having his balls dutifully licked by every single news agency in the continental United States, and as soon as one editor asks him to rewrite - let’s be clear on this - a shitty, incoherent op-ed that desperately required rewriting to make any kind of coherent point past “Obama is a Stupid McStupidhead, PS HE’S DUM”... instead of actually fucking rewriting anything like any kind of actual grown-up would do, he goes running to the Fox News Waaaahmbulance to cry about those mean ol’ bullies on the NYT, and every fucking news agency, including the NYT, falls over themselves to broadcast the TERRIBLE INJUSTICE done to Li’l Johnnie Poopiepants.
Meanwhile Obama gets assailed for every single stupid-ass thing from regularly attending church to being too popular.
But no, let’s pretend that the media has something other than a raging, plainly obvious bias in favor of any Republican presidential candidate, because that’s somehow not self-evidently absurd.
And seriously, political donations? Didn’t Eric Alterman kill that hoary cliche a decade ago?
Jesus, Eileen, did you really even have to read the story to know (basically) what Jesse was talking about?
Actually, I was sure it was going to be about Hollywood. But this is pretty ridiculous, too. Major news organizations like Fox News and the Chicago Tribune have been in the tank for Republicans for decades, and they’re worried about who the grunts with the notepads send checks to?
Why would they simply discount Rudy, Ron Paul, and “a jeweler?” Can Democrats discount donations from multiple candidates and a random donor?
Is the right going to actually DO something about media bias besides whine about it, like put together a serious effort to recall Democrats whom they feel only won because of the media? We have never seen this, for the same reason that we have rarely seen an actual answer on punishing women who have abortions.
I’d also say that those people who are most experienced with a) politics and b) the impact of policies on the average person, will lean to the left. As much as those who vote for one issue are (rightly or wrongly) castigated for not knowing what would affect their own interests, the reporters/news anchors/videographers/photographers have to have a handle on what affects the interests of the masses or they would be ineffectual at their jobs.