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Rdtf
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 Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject: Media Political Contributions... |
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http://69.20.6.242/news2004/oct04/oct25/4_thurs/news1thursday.html
| Quote: | Media's big $s
to sweeten Washington
Oct. 28, 2004 © 2004 Media Life
Push for media dereg is rough on the pocketbook
With the major media conglomerates aiming to see ownership rules loosened, it pays to pay attention to what's going on in Washington. It also pays to contribute to politicians who share your values and, when called upon, to pick up the cost of an airline ticket or two for an elected or appointed official on his way to making an important speech on deregulation.
But it sure can be expensive.
A public interest group in Washington, the Center for Public Integrity, reports that media companies spent $222 million just for lobbying between 1998 and June of this year.
Another $26.5 million was spent in the form of political donations by media companies. And the industry spent another $165,474 in airfare to fly about politicians and government officials. Total: $248.9 million.
Further, such spending is up, and one reason, notes the study, is the passage of Telecommunications Act of 1996 calling for the biannual review of regulations affecting such vital media industry concerns as rules affecting caps on what share of the national television audience one broadcast owner can control. Between 1998 and 2003, broadcasters' lobbying expenses rose from $26 million to $45 million, an increase of 74 percent, according to the report.
Tops among politicians receiving contributions for their election coffers were President Bush at $523,000, Democratic challenger Sen. John F. Kerry at $386,000 and at No. 3, former First Lady and now New York's junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at $347,000 (see chart below).
In contributions by party, Republicans led by a slight margin with $13,528,000 versus $13,391,000 for Democrats, which works out to 50.11 percent versus 49.60 percent, with independents getting a scant 0.29 percent, or $77,000 (see chart below).
And the biggest spenders? NBC's parent, General Electric, was tops at $105,168,256 and well out ahead of everyone else. Next came the National Association of Broadcasters, the trade group, at $43,274,000, then ABC parent Disney at $24,226,800, followed by Viacom and News Corp., parents of CBS and UPN and of Fox, respectively, at nearly equal amounts, $16,112,000 and $15,782,000 (see chart below).
In all, the communications industry, including broadcast, cable television and telecommunications, spent $1.1 billion over the past four years on lobbying, campaign contributions and airfare expenses.
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Barbie2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | In contributions by party, Republicans led by a slight margin with $13,528,000 versus $13,391,000 for Democrats, which works out to 50.11 percent versus 49.60 percent |
But what about the "indirect" contributions, i.e., the "news" programs that where "fair & objective" and certainly not designed to sway public opinion, such as "fake but accurate documents" and memo's to be more "critical" of Republicans because they "deserve it" and Kitty Kelly getting three days of air time and Newsweak promising 15pts to Kerry and MSM oppressing/slandering the Swiftboat Veterans and POW's and. . .
Gee, aren't those contributions also??
Hmmmmmmm, I bet all the "indirect" and direct contributions total $1,352,800,000.
So, this is the true, for both direct and indirect, contributions breakdown:
Rebublicans: $13,528,000 1%
Democrats: $1,339,272,000 99%
Total: $1,352,800,000
Of course, they probably "targeted" those "Republican contributions" to specific "RINOS" paid to be obstructionists for the Republicans, too, as part of their master plan 
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