In another shocker, political donations favor the Democrats. OK, so not really a shocker, but the sheer magnitude of difference is. And even funnier was the fact that Fox News, the evil conservative propaganda machine, wasn't favoring the Republicans. Only MSNBC had more donations for Republicans, by a huge margin of $282 to $210. Comparing that to MSNBC's parent company - NBC - where the donations were a staggering $104,184 to $3,150 in favor of Democrats. Fox News on the other hand, contributed $1,280 to Democrats and nothing to Republicans. Fox News' parent company Fox had similar results, with $40,573 going to Democrats and again, nothing to Republicans.
Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10-to-1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14-to-1 ratio.
So does this prove a media bias? I would argue that at the very least, it underlies an agenda on what direction the country should take, if even on a subconscious level. Humans have bias - that's part of having free will and opinions - and it shows up, even if we try to be impartial.
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