On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:16 PM, David Bruggeman <bru...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, NewsCorp contributed $1 million to a Republican group earlier this > year. No way would they crack down on their staff for similar stuff. > > David > Doesn't General Electric also donate to political causes, too? Or is it that NewsCorp has been more one sided and generous in its donation. > ------------------------------ > *From:* donz5 <do...@aol.com> > ** > *Subject:* [TV orNotTV] Re: Olby suspended indefinitely > > The revelations not yet spread from their initial sources: > > March 2006: Joe Scarborough contributes $4,200 to Oregon House > Republican candidate Derrick Kitts. MSNBC's rationale for no penalty: > "Kitts is an old friend of Joe's. Joe hosts an opinion program and is > not a news reporter." > > http://www.dailykos.com/ > Aside from the friend rationale, the other two reasons would apply to Olbermann as well... unless they believe the fiction that Countdown is straight news. > > August 2010: Sean Hannity contributes $5,000 to Michelle Bachmann. Not > a peep from Fox New management. > > > http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/09/23/bachmann_hannity_donation > ------------------------------------------------- And to think, MSNBC just introduced that expensive new image campaign too -- "Lean Forward". Maybe they should have used their alternate choice, "Keeping it Real". "Yes, we're a liberal network. We're just keeping it real, yo!" -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
