Media strongly favors Democrats

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<p>Latest and greatest about the amazing bias to the left everyone but the media knows about.</p>

<p>*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 .</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.

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).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.*&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;See: [IBDeditorials.com:&lt;/a&gt; Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1](&lt;a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301702713742569%5DIBDeditorials.com:"&gt;http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301702713742569)&lt;/p&gt;
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<p>I agree with you but I’ll pop some popcorn for the show…</p>

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<p>THAT is amazing!
Thanks for posting p2noles - even if it is sort of frustrating & disturbing.
Is there any hope of objective reporting?
Can any candidate “beat those odds” when the media is so overwhelming in support of “the other guy”?</p>

<p>**Schedule more Town Hall meetings for John McCain!! If he can get himself in front of enough people he’ll win! The voters aren’t stupid (I hope) but some could certainly be swayed by subtle biased messages in the media.</p>

<p>Those figures are jsut astounding - and worrisome.</p>

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<p>I think the media has been profoundly pro-McCain - they’ve given him so many free passes on issues central to his identity.</p>

<p>If Obama had done anything like McCain’s Packers v. Steelers thing, he’d be toast!</p>

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<p>mini, okay just spew the biased dribble, but the statistics prove otherwise.</p>

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<p>But the BEHAVIOR proves otherwise.</p>

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<p>uum…100 to 1, that is the BEHAVIOR you are talking about? Right it proves something.</p>

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<p>This is news? I feel like I have to go to the rightest of sources just to get <em>anything</em> that is not liberal.</p>

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<p>People are starting to get tired of the media trying to select the next POTUS for them! I feel a backlash coming against these over-zealous pundits!</p>

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<p>When I look at how many stations carry rush, and oreilly, and savage and the like, I think the donations by dems in the media barely scratches the surface of what those guys do</p>

<p>The rightest of sources…oh how many scary gaffes does McCain have to make before people go, hmm, he doesn’t even understand the countries we are dealing with</p>

<p>If you want to talk about bias, McCain is being given a free ride of his mistakes, missinformation, bad facts, bad time lines, etc.</p>

<p>Rightest of the right? Does that mean Savage and O’Reilly- those bastions of facts?</p>

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<p>I was thinking about that too TerpDad. I was also wondering if perhaps when the “honeymoon” w/ Obama is over, the general public might not like him being shoved down their throats by the media.</p>

<p>It will be interesting to see how long they can keep up the “hype” in the absence of any real sustantive policy or answers to real questions. I suspect eventually Obama’s “fall from grace” will be the real story - if any journalists are objective or brave enough to run w/ it.</p>

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<p>Yea, can you think critically? Your post seems to suggest you can’t. </p>

<p>As someone said above, the behavior says otherwise. Moreover, anyone who knows anything about politics knows that this is not about partisanship. It’s about the fact that educated people tend to be more liberal and progressive.</p>

<p>Lastly, I think this line of attack is a bit risky. It leaves McCain vulnerable to criticisms that corporate America overwhelmingly favors the Republican Party. I don’t think McCain should continue the same negative line of attack next week. Sure it’s mobilizing the right wing nut jobs who listen to Rush Limbaugh make a fool of himself everyday, however, I don’t think it’s going to play well with independents and with people who want to see change. I think it’s damaging McCain’s “maverick” image.</p>

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<p>How many creationists do you expect to find on the faculty of a University biology department? Does that mean there’s no “balance” in academia? </p>

<p>I hate to spoil the right wing pity party, but a reality none of you all are going to want to acknowledge is that right wing politics are based on lies and propaganda. To support that you need to subvert objective reporting and attack people who tell the truth and expose the deliberately planted falsehoods. So why should a journalist support the party that gave us Iraqi WMD’s, Intelligent Design, and Sen. Inhofe’s war on Climate science? There is not an equivalency between the ends of the American political spectrum and the objective search for truth. </p>

<p>I know you don’t want to hear it, but…sorry - it’s the truth.</p>

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I think all politics is based on lies and propaganda. That’s called human nature.</p>

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<p>^ And how!</p>

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<p>Also amazing is the the fact that Fox News is just the same - in terms of contributions to Democrats - if you consider the chart in the article.</p>

<p>How many times has Fox News been blasted here for being biased to the right? Of course, the article also relates how some media prohibits contributions - at least contributions that could be traced to the business.</p>

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<p>Journalists may be left leaning, but their corporate owners are not. TV journalists don’t usually get say their piece. Being “objective” is saying what their corporate owners want to publish, air, broadcast.</p>

<p>News outlets are owned by corporate conglomerates. Let’s think about this for a minute. Hm. Which way do corporate conglomerates lean? Well, it aint left for sure for obvious reasons. It’s the taxes, stupid. So long may tax loop holes live for their corporate denizens. </p>

<p>It may well be that the journalists themselves are left leaning. So what?</p>

<p>The media takes up a message and repeats it until it becomes entrenched in the popular imagination. WMD, the “axis of evil,” a link between Al Queda and Iraq, anyone think this is a liberal agenda?</p>

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<p>Isn’t it amazing that the people who follow politicians day after day, see them up close and behind the scenes, overwhelming support Democrats? Now that tells me something. </p>

<p>If you want a good cut of meat, ask a butcher.</p>

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<p>^So that means, if you want a good politician, ask the media? The media are experts at discerning the merit of politicians?</p>

<p>I dunno… :(</p>

<p>Would that mean you’d ask the paparazzi who the best actors are, too? :confused:</p>

<p>Being conservative, I think I’d rather hear the pols and see the movies…then make up my own mind. ;)</p>

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<p>Do you have the data to back this up because I know a lot of educated people who are economic conservative. They don’t believe in the left-wing ideology of taxing the rich to the max, and redistributing that income. They believe in government creating an environment to help people succeed financially. The government should not be in the business of wealth distribution. </p>

<p>Do not spend money you don’t have, don’t buy a house, car, or things you can’t afford. If you mess up, man up and accept responsibility, don’t blame others for your own mistakes. Government should make sure that market institutions are running perfectly so that people can afford health insurance, retirement plans, good schools, etc. </p>

<p>I think even “educated liberals” can agree with these things.</p>