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Related: About this forumThe Corporate Media is like one big giant Clinton Super Pac.
So spare me that Bernie has outspent Clinton.
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The Corporate Media is like one big giant Clinton Super Pac. (Original Post)
Skwmom
Apr 2016
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think
(11,641 posts)1. The super pacs too...And the Hillary Victory Fund...
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)2. The media loves a horse race and has kept Bernie propped up
So they could get all that $$ that Bernie has raised. They don't care who wins. They care about ad revenue
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)4. It has nothing to do with a horse race and everything to do with electing a corporate puppet that
serves the 1%. The media has either ignored or attacked Bernie and lied about him.
think
(11,641 posts)8. Television News Network Lobbyists Are Fundraising for Hillary Clinton
Television News Network Lobbyists Are Fundraising for Hillary Clinton
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The top fundraisers for Clinton include lobbyists who serve the parent companies of CNN and MSNBC.
The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group that represents the television station industry, has lobbyists who are fundraising for both Clinton and Republican candidate Marco Rubio.
Presidential campaigns are obligated by law to send the Federal Election Commission a list of lobbyists who serve as bundlers, collecting hundreds of individual checks on behalf of a candidates campaign.
CNNs parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as one of Washingtons top lobbyists. Hes lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy.
Elmendorf, according to disclosures, has raised at least $141,815 for Clintons 2016 bid for the presidency.
Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal, which includes cable networks NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC, has a number of lobbyists on retainer who are working to raise cash for the Clinton campaign, including Justin Gray, Alfred Mottur, Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino....
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/media-fundraisers-presidential/
~Snip~
The top fundraisers for Clinton include lobbyists who serve the parent companies of CNN and MSNBC.
The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group that represents the television station industry, has lobbyists who are fundraising for both Clinton and Republican candidate Marco Rubio.
Presidential campaigns are obligated by law to send the Federal Election Commission a list of lobbyists who serve as bundlers, collecting hundreds of individual checks on behalf of a candidates campaign.
CNNs parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as one of Washingtons top lobbyists. Hes lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy.
Elmendorf, according to disclosures, has raised at least $141,815 for Clintons 2016 bid for the presidency.
Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal, which includes cable networks NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC, has a number of lobbyists on retainer who are working to raise cash for the Clinton campaign, including Justin Gray, Alfred Mottur, Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino....
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/media-fundraisers-presidential/
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)3. Who is the socialist?
Bernie pays his workers and his bills.
MattP
(3,304 posts)5. The media is for Hillary
bjo59
(1,166 posts)6. Indeed it is. A free, 24-hour a day advertisement for Hillary Clinton.
That's the way it is in this country. Corporations own nearly everything. Soon it will be all water sources and maybe in the future we will even have to pay rent for the oxygen we breathe. Apparently there are a lot of Americans who are quite happy with this state of affairs. I'm comforted to know, by way of Bernie Sanders' popularity and success in this corporate owned country, that many Americans are definitely not so content with this state of affairs.
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