Media Bashing Gets Serious (III) (Correction)

The previous post contains results of a of MSNBC’s Bill Dedman's survey of journalists' campaign contributions during 2004-06. Dedman may be neutral; MSNBC leans left. Therefore, I have decided to take issue with Dedman’s exclusion of at least 22 people from his list of 143 donors, because these 22 paid for tickets to hear Bruce Springsteen’s “Vote for Change” concert, but did not otherwise contribute directly to a political campaign. The Boss’ pals included an MSNBC producer (Dedman’s own Boss) and 21 other journalists. Dedman said, “Although all of the purchase price went to the effort to defeat Bush that fall, the intent may have been entirely musical.” No. Entirely musical + political.

Adding “at least 22” to the previous total of 143, and counting all of the “at least 22” as Democrats, raises the Democratic percentage of Dedman’s givers to 90.3%, eerily close to the 91% of Washington reporters who supported Clinton in 1992.

It’s like a Cuban election to re-elect Castro.