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Sorry, not buying that. Joel Send a noteboard - 19/02/2012 02:56:43 AM

Seriously though, the Dems are the only recipients of corporate campaign donations? Romney and Gingrich are Dems now?

I was referring to media attention by way of slanted coverage and favorable editorials. All that money basically goes for advertising, i.e. air time and print space. With corporate campaign contributions cut off, the media will still be free to donate to the Dems, via their dominance of the "news" media and Op-Ed pages and shows in the MSM, the end product for which the corporations donate money for the candidates to purchase. The only corporations with a say in the political process will be AOL-Time-Warner and other media conglomerates. THAT is how ONLY Democrats will receive corporate contributions. They are able to avoid it, because they are not receiving money, but since they are receiving the primary commodity on which campaign funds are spent, for all intents and purposes, they ARE receiving campaign contributions, even under the most airtight finance laws, which hypothetically could block ALL corporate spending.

The media covers both parties, of necessity; not only can their ratings not afford to alienate the 40% of US Republicans, their accuracy and thoroughness (not to mention inside access to policy decisions) cannot afford to ignore the GOP. I guarantee Romney, who holds NO elected office, is getting a lot more network coverage these days than the president. A lot of that media coverage does not make the subjects look very good, but a lot of that is the old Adlai Stevenson line that if Republicans stop telling lies about Dems Dems will stop telling the truth about them. If Republicans do not want the media reporting on them doing shameful things they can always try doing something that is not shameful (if only for the novelty.

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Basically, we are back to the same old thing: Universities and the media tend to lean left because of a vast left wing conspiracy; that the highest percentage of best educated people happen to be at universities and the highest percentage of best informed people happen to be in the media is purely coincidental.

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One for the Road: Super PAC Money Untraceable Joel - 13/02/2012 04:05:54 PM 723 Views

unfortunately the presidency has been for sale to the highest bidder for some time moondog - 15/02/2012 02:15:00 PM 87 Views

Making the worst of a bad situation. Joel - 15/02/2012 04:15:32 PM 79 Views

Free speech is the problem though - without donations for ads, the corporate media has a monopoly Cannoli - 17/02/2012 07:55:30 PM 91 Views

Yeah, really not playing the "liberal media bias game." Joel - 19/02/2012 03:39:51 AM 250 Views

So what? Cannoli - 15/02/2012 02:20:36 PM 87 Views

Because selling government to the highest bidder is not democracy or republicanism, but plutocracy. Joel - 15/02/2012 06:24:29 PM 89 Views

As opposed to a media-ocracy? Cannoli - 17/02/2012 07:33:03 PM 159 Views

Sorry, not buying that. Joel - 19/02/2012 02:56:43 AM 134 Views

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<quote id="245007"><quote>Seriously though, the Dems are the only recipients of corporate campaign donations?  Romney and Gingrich are Dems now? :P</quote>I was referring to media attention by way of slanted coverage and favorable editorials. All that money basically goes for advertising, i.e. air time and print space.  With corporate campaign contributions cut off, the media will still be free to donate to the Dems, via their dominance of the "news" media and Op-Ed pages and shows in the MSM, the end product for which the corporations donate money for the candidates to purchase.  The only corporations with a say in the political process will be AOL-Time-Warner and other media conglomerates.  THAT is how ONLY Democrats will receive corporate contributions.  They are able to avoid it, because they are not receiving money, but since they are receiving the primary commodity on which campaign funds are spent, for all intents and purposes, they ARE receiving campaign contributions, even under the most airtight finance laws, which hypothetically could block ALL corporate spending. 
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The media covers both parties, of necessity; not only can their ratings not afford to alienate the 40% of US Republicans, their accuracy and thoroughness (not to mention inside access to policy decisions) cannot afford to ignore the GOP.  I guarantee Romney, who holds NO elected office, is getting a lot more network coverage these days than the president.  A lot of that media coverage does not make the subjects look very good, but a lot of that is the old Adlai Stevenson line that if Republicans stop telling lies about Dems Dems will stop telling the truth about them.  If Republicans do not want the media reporting on them doing shameful things they can always try doing something that is not shameful (if only for the novelty. ;))

Basically, we are back to the same old thing:  Universities and the media tend to lean left because of a vast left wing conspiracy; that the highest percentage of best educated people happen to be at universities and the highest percentage of best informed people happen to be in the media is purely coincidental. :rolleyes:
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