Wednesday, March 21, 2007

2008 Races: Fox News Blogger, Ex-NYT'er, Media Folk Giving to Pols, PACs

It's never too early to start following the corporate media money in the next election cycle.
PoliticalMoneyLine recently launched a search engine for 2007-2008 races and I used it to search for any donations by media people of all sorts. No marquee name reporters or top corporate media owners turned up, this early in the next election cycle. And of the donations here, none went to a presidential hopeful.
The records here are a definite yawner, but I think show the necessity of keeping tabs on people in the news room deciding what get covered in print or on air, and also watching the giving of executives on the corporate side of news outlets.
What do we have here?
The biggest fish from the expedition was the contribution from Martin Frost, a Fox News blogger and it was to a congressional candidate. A former foreign correspondent for the NY Times made gave to the DNC. A local TV weatherman, who has an extensive record of giving, wrote a check to the Democrats, as did a food/life styles reporter for Chicago Magazine, and two corporate executives made small donations.

Expect to see many more such contributions as the next election cycle drags on and on and on ...

Frost, Martin Rep
12/6/2006 $1,000.00
Fort Worth, TX 76140
Fowle, Farnsworth
1/19/2007 $230.00
Bronx, NY 10463
Norcross, Bryan S Mr.
1/23/2007 $5,000.00
Miami Beach, FL 33139
ROHDE, JILL
1/23/2007 $300.00
CHICAGO, IL 60614
Major, Brenda
1/27/2007 $250.00
New York, NY 10024
[earmarked intermediary treasury out] ACTBLUE

Manze, Vincent
1/19/2007 $216.00
Burbank, CA 91523
[Contribution] GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

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