The List

[DOGS THAT BARK]

To lenthy to post but quite revealing here is entire list-

The list: Journalists who wrote political checks
And their explanations, from ?Yikes!? to ?They?re all in somebody?s pocket?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455

-and to think there are some that still think media is not biases-:142smilie

Question --How do Rebs ever win an election with overwhelming biased from the media.
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The following 144 journalists made campaign contributions from 2004 through the first quarter of 2007, according to Federal Election Commission records studied by MSNBC.com.

Key:

(D) contributed to Democrats or liberal causes.

(R) to Republicans and conservative causes.

Click on "details" next to each name to see the amounts and what the journalists have to say.

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Television:

(D) ABC News, Mary Fulginiti, "Primetime" correspondent. Click for details.

(D) ABC affiliate in Boston, WCVB, Sangita Chandra, producer. Click for details.

(D) ABC affiliate in Wichita, KAKE, Susan Peters, anchor. Click for details.

(D) CBS News, Serena Altschul, correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details.

(D) CBS News, Edward H. Forgotson Jr., producer, "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details.

(D) CBS affiliate in Boston, WBZ, Liz Walker, newsmagazine host. Click for details.

(D) CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, KCBS, Claudia Bill, news writer. Click for details.

(D) CBS affiliate in Memphis, WREG, Markova Reed, anchors the morning and noon news. Click for details.

(D) CNN, Guy Raz, Jerusalem correspondent, now defense correspondent for National Public Radio. Click for details.

(R) CW affiliate in Chicago, WGN, Jay Congdon, news producer. Click for details.

(R) CW affiliate in Los Angeles, KTLA, Diana Chi, news writer. Click for details.

(R) Fox News Channel, Ann Stewart Banker, producer for Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor." Click for details.

(D) Fox News Channel, Codie Brooks, researcher for Brit Hume's "Special Report." Click for details.

(D) Fox affiliate in Omaha, KPTM, Calvert Collins, reporter. Click for details.

(D) Fox affiliate in Minneapolis, KMSP, Alix Kendall, morning anchor. Click for details.

(D) Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., WTTG, Laura Evans, anchor. Click for details.

How they got on the list
Donors to federal candidates, PACs and parties
MSNBC.com checked the Federal Election Commission records from January 2004 through the first quarter of 2007 and attempted to contact each journalist. If a person donated during that period, earlier donations are also listed here.


Click here to read the story, "Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly)."


(R) MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, host of "Morning Joe" and "Scarborough Country." Click for details.

(D) MTV News, Gideon Yago, "Choose or Lose" presidential correspondent. Click for details.

(D) NBC News, Victoria Corderi, "Dateline" correspondent. Click for details.

(R) PBS affiliate in New York, Thirteen/WNET, Rafael Roman, host, "New York Voices." Click for details.

(D) Independent station KTVK, Phoenix, Steve Bodinet, reporter. Click for details.

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Online:

(D) MSNBC.com, Rachel Schwanewede, senior editor, TodayShow.com. Click for details.

(D) MSNBC.com, Joel Widzer, travel columnist. Click for details.

(D) Salon.com, Gary Kamiya, writer at large and former executive editor. Click for details.

(D) Salon.com, Katharine Mieszkowski, reporter. Click for details.

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Magazines:

(D) The Atlantic Monthly, Martha Spaulding, assistant managing editor. Click for details.

(D) Business Week, Prudence Crowther, chief copy editor. Click for details.

(D) The Economist, Andreas Kluth, technology correspondent. Click for details.

(D) The Economist, Joanne Ramos, financial writer. Click for details.

(R) Forbes, Jean A. Briggs, assistant managing editor. Click for details.

(R) Forbes, Robert Lenzner, national editor. Click for details.

(D) Forbes, Tatiana Serafin, senior reporter. Click for details.

(D) Inc., Jane Berentson, editor. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, David Denby, film critic. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Henry Finder, editorial director and books editor. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Tad Friend, Hollywood reporter. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Ann Goldstein, head of copy department. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, John Lahr, theater critic. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Janet Malcolm, writer. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, George Packer, war correspondent. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Mark Singer, profile writer. Click for details.

(D) The New Yorker, Judith Thurman, writer. Click for details.

(D) Newsweek, Temma Ehrenfeld, associate editor. Click for details.

(D & R) Newsweek, Jane Bryant Quinn, personal finance columnist. Click for details.

(D) Newsweek, Anne Underwood, correspondent on health and medical stories. Click for details.

(D) Rolling Stone, Jason Fine, deputy managing editor. Click for details.

(D) Rolling Stone, David Swanson, assistant editor. Click for details.

(D) Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, editor and publisher. Click for details.

(D) Time, Jim Frederick, senior editor. Click for details.

(D) U.S. News & World Report, Michael Freeman, researcher. Click for details.

(D) U.S. News & World Report, Amanda Spake, senior writer. Click for details.

(D) Vanity Fair, Elise O'Shaughnessy, contributing editor. Click for details.

(D) Vanity Fair, Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor. Click for details.


(D) McClatchy Newspapers, Beryl Adcock, news desk chief, Washington bureau. Click for details.

(D) The Wall Street Journal, Krishnan Amantharaman, managing editor of the classroom edition. Click for details.

(D) The Wall Street Journal, Henny Sender, senior special writer. Click for details.

(D) The Wall Street Journal, Eben Shapiro, editor of the Weekend Journal section. Click for details.

(D) The New York Times, Randy Cohen, ethics columnist. Click for details.

(D) The New York Times, Christine Muhlke, deputy editor, style magazine. Click for details.

(D & R) The New York Times, Nancy Tilghman, freelance writer. Click for details.

(D) Los Angeles Times, Nick Cuccia, design editor. Click for details.

(D) Los Angeles Times, Manohla Dargis, film critic, now at The New York Times. Click for details.

(D) Los Angeles Times, Dan Neil, automobile critic. Click for details.

(R) Los Angeles Times, Charles Perry, food writer. Click for details.

(D) New York Daily News, Celia McGee, reporter, and freelancer for The New York Times. Click for details.

(D) New York Daily News, Matthew Roberts, photographer. Click for details.

(R) The Washington Post, Stephen Hunter, film critic. Click for details.

(D) The Chicago Tribune, Maureen Ryan, entertainment reporter. Click for details.

(D) The Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein, classical music critic. Click for details.

(D) San Francisco Chronicle, William Pates, letters editor for the editorial page. Click for details.

(D) Newsday, Long Island, Rita Hall, section designer/artist/writer. Click for details.

(D) The Boston Globe, Rebecca Ostriker, arts editor/writer. Click for details.

(D) The Boston Globe, Henry Riemer, sports statistician. Click for details.

(R) The Star-Ledger, Newark, Robin Gaby Fisher, feature writer. Click for details.

(D) Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Barbara Haugen, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Detroit Free Press, Susan Hall-Balduf, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Detroit Free Press, Joel Thurtell, reporter. Click for details.

(D) The Oregonian, Portland, Steve Amick, reporter. Click for details.

(R) The Miami Herald, Harry Broertjes, copy editor/page designer. Click for details.

(R) The San Diego Union-Tribune, Joe Cline, graphic artist. Click for details.

(D) The San Diego Union-Tribune, Penni Crabtree, business reporter. Click for details.

(D) The San Diego Union-Tribune, Bob Elledge, assistant news editor. Click for details.

(D) The San Diego Union-Tribune, Shaffer Grubb, graphic artist. Click for details.

(D) The San Diego Union-Tribune, Arline Smith, news production editor. Click for details.

(D) The San Diego Union-Tribune, Charlie Smith, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) The Sun, Baltimore, John Scholz, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) San Jose Mercury News, Rachel Wilner, sports editor. Click for details.

(D) Boston Herald, Chris Donnelly, news librarian. Click for details.

(D) South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Ethan Skolnick, sports columnist. Click for details.

(D) Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Randy Galloway, sports columnist. Click for details.

(D) Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Vincent Langford, sports copy editor. Click for details.

(D) The Hartford Courant, Nancy Gallinger, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) The Hartford Courant, Bill Lewis, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Richmond Times-Dispatch, Michael Hardy, state political reporter. Click for details.

(D) Richmond Times-Dispatch, Pam Mastropaolo, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Contra Costa Times, Calif., Robert Taylor, fine arts reporter. Click for details.

(D) The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., Mark Benoit, wire editor. Click for details.

(D) The Palm Beach Post, Fla., George McEvoy, columnist. Click for details.

(R) The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Barbara Bradley, fashion editor. Click for details.

(D) The Des Moines Register, Stephen P. Dinnen, business reporter. Click for details.

(D) The Honolulu Advertiser, Chris Neil, wire editor. Click for details.

(D) The Blade, Toledo, James Bradley, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Lexington Herald-Leader, Brian Throckmorton, copy desk chief. Click for details.

(R) The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., Beth Hudson, sports reporter. Click for details.

(D) The Daytona Beach, Fla., News-Journal, Marc Davidson, editor. Click for details.

(D) Albany, N.Y., Times Union, Greg Montgomery, graphic design editor. Click for details.

(R) The Washington Times, Gary Arnold, film critic. Click for details.

(D) San Gabriel Valley Newspapers, Calif., Eric Terrazas, sports editor. Click for details.

(R) The New York Sun, Liz Peek, financial columnist. Click for details.

(D) The Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star, Paul Fell, editorial cartoonist. Click for details.

(D) The Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star, Sylvia Hermanson, copy editor. Click for details.

(R) The Macon, Ga., Telegraph, Stephen "Keich" Whicker, local government reporter. Click for details.

(D) New Hampshire Union Leader, David Johnson, sports copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Corpus Christi, Texas, Caller-Times, Elvia Aguilar, business writer. Click for details.

(D) National Catholic Reporter, Margot Patterson, senior writer and arts/opinion editor. Click for details.

(D) York, Pa., Daily Record, Teresa Cook, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Muskegon, Mich., Chronicle, Terry Judd, reporter and chief of the Grand Haven bureau. Click for details.

(D) Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel, Fran Adler, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel, Faith Van Gilder, copy editor. Click for details.

(D) Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Times, Whit Griswold, copy editor. Click for details.

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Radio:

(D) Air America and CBS Radio, Betsy Rosenberg-Zimmerman, environment talk show host and environment reporter. Click for details.

(D) National Public Radio, Corey Flintoff, newscaster. Click for details.

(D) National Public Radio, Michelle Trudeau, correspondent. Click for details.

(D) NPR affiliate in Washington, WAMU, Susan Goodman, reporter. Click for details.

(D) WWJ News Radio, Detroit, Vickie B. Thomas, reporter. Click for details.

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Wire services:

(D) Bloomberg News, Katherine Burton, reporter. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, Robert Dieterich, energy editor. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, Joshua Fellman, reporter in Asia. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, Robert Houck, multimedia news editor. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, Milanee Kapadia, reporter. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, James Polson, reporter on energy and utilities. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, Carlos Torres, reporter in Washington. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, Robert Urban, real estate reporter. Click for details.

(D) Bloomberg News, John Wydra, radio newscaster. Click for details.

(D) Dow Jones Newswires, Samuel J. Favate Jr., editor. Click for details.

(D) Dow Jones Newswires, Billy Mallard, credit markets editor. Click for details.

(D) Reuters, Lisa von Ahn, news desk editor. Click for details.

(D) Reuters, Michael Erman, reporter. Click for details.


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Non-English-language news organizations:

(D) La Stampa, newspaper in Turin, Italy, Paolo Mastrolilli, New York correspondent. Click for details.

(D) New Delhi Television, Stephen Marks, reporter. Click for details.

(D) The Korea Daily News, Chang W. Kim, journalist. Click for details.

(D) Pakistan TV, Jack Khangura, reporter. Click for details.

(D) Oriental Daily, Chun Fai Cheng, reporter. Click for details.

 

[smurphy]

(D) contributed to Democrats or liberal causes.

(R) to Republicans and conservative causes.

What is a liberal or conservative cause? Sounds like a vague description that can be used to make a biased assumption.

Also the range 2004 thru part of 2007. What part of 2004?

I find it hard to believe that Rush Limbaugh or any of the countless conservative radio programs don't make contributions to Republicans. According to this, NONE of them do. How can that be correct?

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Yep right Smurph--you still can't see any bias

appears there was one fair and balanced network anyway

9 to 1 Democrat

An analysis of Federal Election Commission records by NBC indicates journalists who make political donations favor Democrats over Republicans by a margin of almost nine-to-one.

The network identified 144 media members who made contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign. 125 of those gave to Democrats or liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans, with two giving to both parties.

Two of those 144 work here at the FOX News Channel. One gave to Republican candidates and the other? a researcher for Special Report? gave to a Democrat.
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Don't know about Rush--just taking data from liberal msnbc report:shrug:

---and speaking of Rush I see where Billiary and Boxer are trying t reign in conservative talk shows
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/2042.html

If they get that accomplished along with their immigration influx of illegals--and the felon vote issue--your time might come sooner than the 15 years I projected earlier.

Todays theme--Be careful what you wish for!

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Don't know about Rush--just taking data from liberal msnbc report:shrug:

Hmmmm. You don't know about Rush? I guess that makes one person in this country.

I like how you are quick to point out that this article is from the "liberal msnbc"......Think about it for a second. The one source calling out liberals (at least that's how you see it) is a supposed liberal source......are you too stupid to see your own ignorance?

Just because you reach in the toilet and pull out a turd does,'t make you a winner. These journalists are citizens and have every right to support candidates/parties.....the fact that they contribute to a campaign doesn't equate to liberal journalism.

Instead of proving the liberal media myth by showing how someone votes, why not prove it with their journalism? Why? Because you can't. You and your republican buddies think any story that shows the negative side/impact of war is liberal bias. That's asinine. You want good news stories coming out of a war zone, go find them yourself. If you were a reporter in that hellhole, I don't think you'd be reporting on the high morale and soft sands of Iraq.

Keep buying what Hannity, Rush & Co. are selling. Nevermind the fact that Conservatives dominate the radio airwaves and have their own news channel. That is too obvious.
Pathetic.

 

[djv]

I guess in a way these are the little folks. A list of owners like of Fox/CNN and what they give would be interesting to.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Bit testy today --aren't we Groz

---its like you been carrying a chip on your shoulders for 8 years

but since it gets your goat so bad--

Saw another example some time back--instead of media it was done on blog sites--

Had you do google search on Air America and then a couple of conservative shows---

Over 65% of links 1st 2 pages on AA was positive and the opposite for the conservative talk shows.

Yet as we know AA went the route of the rest of liberal radio and the conservative shows still flourish.

Is there a lesson to be learned here

 

[Jabberwocky]

"along with their immigration influx of illegals"

Bush is a liberal?

 

[djv]

Yes a Republican is not necessarily a conservative. And same for Dem's as liberals.
As for press being more to liberal does not surprise. Someone has to be to counter the way your government may think from time to time.
At the right time most the press will always slide to right. Such as with WWII.
What I like to see is a owner that lets there employees speak there mind with out fear.

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Bit testy today --aren't we Groz

---its like you been carrying a chip on your shoulders for 8 years

but since it gets your goat so bad--

Saw another example some time back--instead of media it was done on blog sites--

Had you do google search on Air America and then a couple of conservative shows---

Over 65% of links 1st 2 pages on AA was positive and the opposite for the conservative talk shows.

Yet as we know AA went the route of the rest of liberal radio and the conservative shows still flourish.

Is there a lesson to be learned here

Is this really a response to my post?

You want to know why I am a bit testy? It is because people like you (well, really it's just you) take a dump on the floor and I'm stuck cleaning it up. Case in point, I call out your BS post and you respond without addressing the content. Do you know how ridiculous that is? I point out that campaign contributions do not equate to left leaning journalism, and you start talking about negative/positive results in a google search about Air America. Ridiculous.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

--political contributions don't equate to which way the person leans-????

Probably means their using reverse phsycology and actually support the other party-right:SIB

I doubt you even get Sponge and Edward--to sip from that glass

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Wayne:

Political contributions do not necessarily indicate which way a person or corporation leans. I know many people who play both sides of the fence. That is the problem with the current system.

As I've indicated many times on this board, real, true and effective campaign finance reform is the first step in saving this country. You can start with your disgustingly bought and sold senator McConnel. Freedom of speech, my ass. That clown is owned by big business.

Eddie

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Wayne: make your point about liberal media by using examples of their journalism, not their political vote/contribution. You can't say the media is liberal unless it is pumping out obvious left leaning stories and give Dems more airtime. That's my point.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Groz if I thought putting up the air time charts for Media on liberals vs conservatives would do any good--I would--but if you can't see the biased from above--any further proof would be waste of time.

I expect you and bloggers next act to be --showing Fox not giving Dems airtime--without noting its not that they aren't invited its that they are :scared shitless to do interviews they can't control. You have such a courageous party--

---and Edward a simple questions on your freedom issues--

You liberals kill me on your freedom issues you slant to what suits you

As if pedaphiles and child porn contributers trump our rights

you whine about gov invading ones privacy--yet defend websites that will sell info on anyone for a price---save your speeches for spongie and rest of the coolaid crowd that bite on your warped sense of values.

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Wayne:

I'm sorry I did not see the "simple question" in your diatribe.

Ed

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Wayne, I don't want charts, I want examples of liberally biased journalism.

And once again, since it never seems to take, I'm not a Democrat.

 

[Chadman]

I expect you and bloggers next act to be --showing Fox not giving Dems airtime--without noting its not that they aren't invited its that they are :scared shitless to do interviews they can't control. You have such a courageous party--

I will allow that there probably is some liberal leanings in the print media, and you have a valid point with that, Wayne, your above comment is patently ridiculous. To say that reputable, good looking, intelligent and well-spoken liberal representatives are often invited or are afraid of discussing issues on a level basis with the likes of O'Reilly, Hannity, etc., is just wrong. You know - if you watch as much as you say you do - that they usually grab the most strange looking, fringe issue toting person they can bully in a strongarmed 2-3 minute barrage. There are plenty of qualified people that could stand toe to toe with those guys in an even event - but that would never happen on those guys shows. I think propping up Alan Colmes to be Hannity's sidekick pretty much proves my point.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Chad When you dodge a cable network that has more viewers than the others combined--your scared of something.

Can't believe after fact apon fact that some till refuse to see the liberal media biased--Would be similiar to me saying there is no proof conservatives don't dominate talk radio shows--which the facts overwhelmingly prove.

If you can't look at things objectively would advise you not to wager on politics or probably anything else.

 

[Chadman]

So, what are you referring to, when you say that liberals (which liberals?) are dodging the cable network? I guess you are referring to one early debate that definitely would have been tinged to paint liberals in a bad light with structured questioning, so I can see not risking an early bad set of soundbites that would have been re-run 24 hours a day on the network and given top spot on Drudge Report for days on end.

And I would like to point out again that CNN has more daily unique viewers alone than Fox News has, so I guess it depends on what sandbox you want to play in. It of course helps when your billionaire owner actually pays to get his programming on cable networks to create market share, which is the only reason Fox News is a blip on the radar screen at all. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but it does help to have proper perspective in dealing with "popularity." No doubt Fox has had more interest during the Bush/Conservative heydey, but that interest has shown to be fading in the ratings percentage-wise, and money is the only reason they were there in the first place. I guess the ratings match the interest and support for the current administration. Maybe support will come rushing back for it, since Cheney is strangely enough not to be considered a part of it now, tho, right?

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Wouldn't surprise me CNN has more day time viewers--most of working class has to tune in at prime time--you reckon they switch back and forth from Opra to CNN

 

[smurphy]

Wouldn't surprise me CNN has more day time viewers--most of working class has to tune in at prime time--you reckon they switch back and forth from Opra to CNN

No way. CNN is not entertaining enough for out of work daytime viewers - and it probably doesn't have enough lawyer commercials. What, they gonna tune in to Paula Zahn, Dobbs, or Blitzer, when they could have Cavuto, Shepard Smith and O'Reilly? No way. The louder network attracts more flies.