Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., speaks during a session on day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. This year’s meeting, which is titled “Shaping the Post-Crisis World,” runs until Feb. 1. Photographer: Adrian Moser/Bloomberg News
WOW! NewsBusters has this interesting stat:
All the major media companies, driven largely by their Hollywood film and television businesses, have made larger contributions to President Obama than to his rival, former Gov. Mitt Romney, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington-based research group that publishes the Open Secrets Web site.
The center’s numbers represent donations by a company’s PAC and any employees who listed that company as their employer.
Even companies whose news outlets are often perceived as having a conservative bias have given significantly more money to Mr. Obama. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, for example, has contributed $58,825 to Mr. Obama’s campaign, compared with $2,750 to Mr. Romney. The conglomerate, which owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and the 20th Century Fox studios, gave roughly the same amount to Mr. Romney’s Republican primary competitors Rick Perry and Ron Paul as it did to Mr. Romney.
The report above comes from a New York Times article which amusingly enough turns a story about how media companies donate overwhelmingly to Democrats into a way to bash Rupert Murdoch. That’s not entirely surprising given his ownership of the Wall Street Journal, the Times’s chief competitor.