I was quite pleased to see Univision's long-serving and widely-respected news anchor, Jorge Ramos, doggedly question GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, at a news conference earlier this week.
While there are no records indicating Ramos has made donations to federal politicians or PACs, his company, Univision Communications, has a PAC and files at OpenSecrets.org reveal a Democratic Party bias.
Since 2008, when Univision Communications PAC first began doling out dollars, it had donated $489,000 to Democrats and $75,500 to GOP candidates, in U.S. House and U.S. Senate races.
Journalistic independence and presentation of the news without bias is a stretch for Univision, in my book, considering how much money its PAC has contributed to Democrats and I hope the TV news station is upfront about where it spends its political dollars.
Nothing wrong with advocacy journalism, as long as an outlet discloses their favorite politicians and who receives donations from their political action committee.
These numbers for the Univision Communications PAC come from OpenSecrets.org:
2008
Democrats:
Senate: $18,000
House: $106,000
Subtotal: $124,000
GOP:
Senate: $2,000
House: $10,000
Subtotal: $12,000
2010
Democrats:
Senate: $13,000
House: $105,000
Subtotal: $118,000
GOP:
Senate: $0
House: $15,500
Subtotal: $15,500
2012
Democrats:
Senate: $6,000
House: $98,000
GOP:
Senate: $0
House: $15,000
Subtotal: $15,000
2014
Democrats:
Senate: $14,000
House: $102,500
Subtotal: $116,500
GOP:
Senate: $3,500
House: $21,000
Subtotal: $24,500
2016
Democrats:
Senate: $2,500
House: $30,000
Subtotal: $32,500
GOP:
Senate: $0
House: $8,500
Subtotal: $8,500
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