Hillary Clinton gets more donations from the media than Donald Trump, study says
Journalists have donated to political candidates this election cycle, and have done so overwhelmingly to Hillary Clinton, a new study says.
"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," the Center for Public Integrity said in a new report.
"Nearly all of that money — more than 96 percent — has benefited Clinton," the organization concluded. "$382,000."
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Some of the Clinton donors include The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum and Carole Simpson, the former ABC anchor who was the first African-American woman to moderate a presidential debate. The group, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2014, criticized these donations.
"Simpson... is not moderate about her personal politics," the report said. "Conventional journalistic wisdom holds that reporters and editors are referees on politics' playing field — bastions of neutrality who mustn't root for Team Red or Team Blue, either in word or deed."
Donald Trump has complained loudly about media bias in the closing days of the presidential campaign, and some observers have noted he might have a good case.
Trump has been joined in his complaints by his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, and his wife, Melania Trump.
"I have no doubt the national media is trying to rig this election with their biased coverage," Pence said Monday.
Hear what Pence had to say:
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