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Center for Public Integrity: 96% of journalists' political donations go to Clinton



Yesterday, I had to laugh when I saw the following Tweet from Chris Cillizza. He writes "The Fix" over at the Washington Post. I wasn't alone. Immediately he was inundated with evidence of the media's left-wing leanings and, in particular, its coziness with the Clinton machine. At this point, it isn't really something anyone should have to explain. Their blatant bias has been visible for decades. Still, people like Cillizza try to pretend it doesn't exist. He must have been disappointed when, this morning, The Center for Public Integrity published its findings about which candidate is receiving money from so-called "journalists."
In all, people identified in federal campaign finance filings as journalists, reporters, news editors or television news anchors — as well as other donors known to be working in journalism — have combined to give more than $396,000 to the presidential campaigns of Clinton and Trump, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis. Nearly all of that money — more than 96 percent — has benefited Clinton: About 430 people who work in journalism have, through August, combined to give about $382,000 to the Democratic nominee, the Center for Public Integrity’s analysis indicates. About 50 identifiable journalists have combined to give about $14,000 to Trump. (Talk radio ideologues, paid TV pundits and the like — think former Trump campaign manager-turned-CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski — are not included in the tally.)
If you'd care to see what that looks like in convenient graph form, here you go:

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Center for Public Integrity: 96% of journalists' political donations go to Clinton As the Center for Public Integrity points out, this only covers donations over $200. Candidates aren't required to release the names of donors who fall below that amount. So, I suppose, it's technically possible that there's a massive groundswell of journalists each giving Trump $50. "Possible," in this case, is being used as it is in the following sentence: "It's technically possible that Aliens will land on the White House lawn and demand that Carrot Top be installed as Earth's Supreme Commander." In reality, this data should surprise no one who's spent more than five minutes watching or reading the mainstream "news" over the course of the last 25 years. It simply serves to confirm what everyone - with the possible exception of Chris Cillizza - already knows.


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