ABC employees donated heavily to ObamaAs indignation turned to outrage Thursday among critics of an ABC News prime-time special on President Obama's health care policy, The Washington Times has learned that ABC employees gave 80 times as much money to Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign for president than to his rival's.
According to an analysis of campaign donations by the Center for Responsive Politics, conducted at The Times' request, ABC employees in several divisions donated $124,421 to the Obama campaign, compared with $1,550 to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain.
The 60-minute ABC program, to air live from the White House on Wednesday, is sparking hardball politics in other ways. Grass-roots boycotts, Republican outcry and a study citing media bias are all part of the mix.
A study released Thursday by the Business & Media Institute (BMI) found that since Inauguration Day, ABC has aired news stories with positive reviews of Mr. Obama's health care policy 55 times, compared with 18 times when the network highlighted negative reviews.
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The broadcast, they say, is tantamount to an infomercial for the administration, made worse by the fact that ABC also will broadcast "World News Tonight" from the White House on Wednesday.
"It's not enough to say that ABC is exercising terrible journalistic judgment. The American public has to let ABC know that these decisions matter. As a believer in the marketplace, I think that an advertiser boycott is the way to deal with this unseemly display of media partisanship. After all, every American has a voice in the marketplace," said Sunny Berman of Bookwormroom.com, another conservative blog based in California.
An ABC executive responded to criticisms with the following:
"We welcome feedback from an audience in whatever form it might take. The top and bottom line is that we intend to produce a fair, probing and thoughtful discussion about a vitally important issue," said Jeffrey Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News communications.
...There's broadcast licenses? Why?
I voted "No" because I don't see any reason why these should exist.
According to an analysis of campaign donations by the Center for Responsive Politics, conducted at The Times' request, ABC employees in several divisions donated $124,421 to the Obama campaign, compared with $1,550 to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain.
What an incredibly stupid and useless statistic. This compares to other media companies, and the general public how? Without knowing that, it is pretty meaningless.
If the FCC is going to license spectrum in this fashion, then licenses should not go to entities seeking to be propaganda shills of the government.
The FCC issues licenses subject to periodic review on the general public service provided by the broadcaster. If enough people filed enough complaints with the FCC over ABC's propaganda infomercial, the Democrat in charge of the FCC would have to ignore it all to continue granting ABC their license to lie.
Which is all that's going to happen, no matter what. No illusions here.
What's funny is the Democrat's muteness on the "Fairness Doctrine". Should not ABC allow a real American with professional expertise and knowledge about the issue his own hour to counterpoint The Messiah's Nuremburg Moment, or is ABC the real modern Volkischer Beobachter?
What Ikari said. There is no need for the FCC. Plus, if you are going to get rid of ABC, FOX would have to go, too. No outlets are more obviously biased than FOX and MSNBC. Free Press. Free Speech. Live with it.
Fox News isn't biased. They have a lefty like O'Reilly for op-ed, and they have good balanced news.
People that think Fox News is biased don't have a clue.
Easily the funniest post of the day. Congrats on that. I guess MSNBC isn't biased either. No sir.
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