fair and balanced, because even the craziest republican got some of that dough....
 
Fox News and Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-16/republicans-see-gains-in-governors-races-as-funding-hits-peak.html).
The media conglomerate, controlled by Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, took advantage of the unlimited donations corporations can give to governors' associations (from Bloomberg BusinessWeek):
 The Republicans' biggest corporate donor was New York-based News Corp. Teri Everett, a spokeswoman, said the company "actively supports organizations that advocate a pro-job, low tax, economic growth agenda."

News Corp. opposes proposed federal rule changes that would weaken the position of its Fox network in negotiations with cable companies. Governors may have a stake in the issue. In March, for example, New York Governor David Paterson stepped in with a call for binding arbitration in a dispute over fees between Bethpage, New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp. and Burbank, California-based Walt Disney Co.'s ABC.
News Corp made the $1 million donation on June 24, according (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0810/Fox_parent_gives_1_million_to_RGA.html) to Politico's Ben Smith (and a filing (http://forms.irs.gov/politicalOrgsSearch/search/Print.action?formId=53792&formType=E72)).

and that doesn't even take into account all the free air time they give the GOP to spin the news in favor of the GOP and against the democrats.....oh, well.  is there any doubt how silly it is to think these guys are "fair and balanced" anymore?

So.
 
 

BUT BUT BUT, They are FAIR and BALANCED!!!  ROFL!!

Murdoch donated the limit to Hillary in 2008.  Too bad he could not have given more to her....

Don't burst Ho's bubble.  He likes to live in his fantasy world.

these are not individual contributions from fox employees- it is a corporate donation....they are so certain their core audience does not give a shit if they even ACT like they are fair and balanced they are not even trying to hide it!!!  this is really remarkable, and little tommy says, "so?"  so they are unfair and unbalanced?  so they favor the GOP?  and in a way, he is right...was there any doubt anyway?

got a source for murdoch donating to hillary?  and even if so, HE IS AN INDIVIDUAL..HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS...BUT A NEWS CORPORATION DONATING TO ONE POLITICAL PARTY WHILE IT KEEPS SAYING HOW "FAIR AND BALANCED" THEY ARE?  SERIOUSLY??

http://www.campaignmoney.com/news_corporation.asp (http://www.campaignmoney.com/news_corporation.asp)

Looks pretty balanced to me.

Ho, did you know that MSNBC gave $1/2 million to BHO in 2008?

Murdoch is right to not donate to the Democrats again...   


Google - Murdoch donates to Hillary.

On June 5, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation, gave her presidential bid $2,300. A few weeks later, his son, James R. Murdoch, chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting in London, gave $3,400. Altogether, NewsCorp/Fox executives gave at least $40,000 to the Clinton campaign.
 
In July 2006, the elder Murdoch hosted a fundraiser for Clinton's Senate re-election campaign, raising many eyebrows among Democrats. The Financial Times, which first disclosed the event, noted that Murdoch was a part of the "vast right wing conspiracy" named by Hillary Clinton as determined to destroy her husband's presidency.
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/07/16/hillary-clinton-shuns-fox_n_56495.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/07/16/hillary-clinton-shuns-fox_n_56495.html)
 
 

Obama contributions for 2008...
 

University of California	$1,591,395
Goldman Sachs	$994,795
Harvard University	$854,747
Microsoft Corp	$833,617
Google Inc	$803,436
Citigroup Inc	$701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co	$695,132
Time Warner	$590,084
Sidley Austin LLP	$588,598
Stanford University	$586,557
National Amusements Inc	$551,683
UBS AG	$543,219
Wilmerhale Llp	$542,618
Skadden, Arps et al	$530,839
IBM Corp	$528,822
Columbia University	$528,302
Morgan Stanley	$514,881
General Electric	$499,130
US Government	$494,820
Latham & Watkins	$493,835

learn to read, little tommy.....those are individuals that happen to work for news corp, not the corporation itself.  nobody is saying individuals can contribute whatever they want, it is when the corporation itself donates just to one side, as per the new supreme court ruling, then they are showing their bias....

i believe if you look at the timing of the hillary donations, it was after she became the clear underdog to obama....such small amounts of money means nothing to someone as rich as a Murdoch, so if it can split the democrats to help fund the underdog, why not?  you are so easily misled...no wonder you actually believe fox noise....

The Supreme Court ruling did not say that.

Learn to read, Ho.

2006 and 2007 !?!?!?!
 
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You would die if you could not spin something.  If if the spin is totally absurd.

whatever, bitch.  a million bucks from a so-called NEWS ORGANIZATION TO ONE POLITICAL PARTY is not the same as an idividual giving 3 grand to one candidate....you sit on that and spin all you want, little tommy.  you cannot spin your way out of this....hillary ran for re-election to the senate in 2006, maybe that is when homey contributed...and in 2007, he might have contributed to her because she is FREAKING INFLUENTIAL AND HE HAS MANY DIFFERENT INTERESTS THAT CAN BE AFFECTED BY LEGISLATION.....

Obama was behind Hillary until he played the race card and that was late in the primaries.

Does NBC contribute anything to the DNC?
 
Just trying to get some perspective.

no.  of course not.  that is kinda the point here, anchorhead...they also do not promote and headline Tea Bag Parties like Fox did....

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Top Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions

Dodd, Christopher J  S  CT  D  $165,400   
Obama, Barack  S  IL  D  $126,349   
Kerry, John  S  MA  D  $111,000 

These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that.


Very interesting names on this list, ESPECIALLY at #2.

At least FOX is American, george sorass donates BILLIONS to the liberal regime, he donates BILLIONS to unscrupulous news sites like media matters to spew hate toward Rep's , the sorriest source of biased information in America and that bastard isn't an American..liberals are liars and thieves..

Are you sure you really want to go down that road, Hoosier?  Do you really want to compare media bias in news reporting???

When Chris Matthews says it is his duty to ensure Barrack Obama is seen as a success, do you think that is being fair and balanced?

and rush limbaugh saying he is cheering for obama to fail isn't?  come on, beck and hannity, if not o'reilly, plus almost all their guests have said far worse than matthews ever has and matthews is not a NEWS READER....he is a commentator...so is olbermann, so is maddow, so is rattigan and ed schulz.....that is not the same as their straight up news shows.  fox is slanted all the time.  they edit content, they run with misleading rumors and unsubstantiated "facts,"  they give misleading headlines on their website, and then bury the truth in the last paragraph, knowing that most of their audience can not or will not read past the headline...

Bull Sh*t....

Comcast and NBC Universal’s parent company have showered campaign contributions on members of two panels holding hearings Thursday on the cable giant's proposed purchase of the television network.

Comcast and General Electric have already spent $474,000 on contributions to members of the panels, about 70 percent of what they spent over the entire political cycle of 2008, according to The Hill’s analysis of data on OpenSecrets.org.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/79557-comcast-ge-ramp-up-campaing-contributions-to-key-lawmakers-ahead-of-merger-scrutiny (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/79557-comcast-ge-ramp-up-campaing-contributions-to-key-lawmakers-ahead-of-merger-scrutiny)

(http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/IMG_client_year_comp.php?lname=General+Electric&type=c)
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=General+Electric&year=2010 (http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=General+Electric&year=2010)

Evidence, please.  Do you really expect us to believe GE does not contribute to the DNC?  Do you really expect us to believe they don't stand to make a lot of money through cap and trade legislation?


I think you'd better check again, hoserhead.  It seems the point you were trying to make was on your head.


Did they disparage them?  By disparaging them, aren't they also interjecting just as much bias as the network that promotes them?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Thank you for admitting the vast majority of the media is left wing biased.  I noticed you did not refute it.
 
NBC
ABC
CBS
CNBC
MSNBC
CNN
PBS
NPR
MTV
News Week
Time
U.S. News & World Report
New York Times
Washington Post
San Francisco Chronicle
Seattle Post Intelligencer
LA Times
Chicago Tribune
Atlanta Journal & Constitution
Boston Globe
 
You have two examples - Clear Channel Radio and FOX News
 
As are those above.  What do you think NBC is doing when it has its "Green Week" on their prime time programming?
 
Yes, they do.
 
Dan Rather's "Memo-gate."  NBC's fabricated exploding gas tank.  Yeah, I know.
 
You got that straight.
 
Bingo.  Everything you just said describes the list above.

dur...lobbying is not political donations, dumbshit.  and telling the truth about how stupid tea baggers are, and their stupid pep rallies, is not disparaging them, it is telling the truth about how stupid they are...you know, death panels and obama tripling the deficit and being a birther and a secret muslim and paying more taxes and being a communist or a nazi or refreshing the tree of liberty with blood and this time we came unarmed and all that delirious shit....

no news organization is perfect...memo gate was wrong and an apology was given...the source of the whole story FORGED THE DOCUMENT....and the producer of the one time segment did not research it carefully enough...she was fired, rather apologized and CBS punished the shit out of everybody involved.  the exploding gas tank had nothing to do with politics.  being green is not a political issue, numbnuts, even conservatives back conservation and green policies, you idiot.  you are a liar, danno.  plain and simple.  you are a fucking liar.  period...

Man hoser, you're so stupid I doubt you can dress yourself in the mornig, or do they let you go out...

I don't doubt that liberal testicle dippers are stupid.  But who made you the arbiter of truth?  I think FOX tells the truth and NBC lies.  Therefore when FOX says Obama is destroying the country, they are not disparaging him.  Get it?
 
Death panels is correct.  Health care must necessarily be rationed.  Anyone who doesn't think so is an idiot.  Are you an idiot, Hoser?
 
You're right.  Obama did not "triple" the deficit.  He QUADRUPLED IT!

Thank you for admitting the vast majority of the media is liberally biased.
 
Except you were the one defending Rather's slander.  You were the one perpetuating the claim Bush was AWOL.
 
Not to the person who was harmed by the lie.  Rather apologized to the American people, but he never apologized to Bush.  Shame on him.
 
It doesn't have to.
 
Numb nuts,
 
Libs absolutely make it a political issue.  GE or NBC don't care about the environment, numb nuts.  They care about MONEY!!!  Banning the incandescent light bulb isn't going to do jack poo except line the pockets of GE and other liberal groups.
 
Conservation, not preservation, you idiot!  We don't support cap and tax.  We aren't so arrogant as to claim man has power over the Earth's climate as you idiots believe.
 
You are a liar.  Plain and simple.  A coitusing liar.  period.

He's probably a government worker.  Their standards aren't very high.