the unwillingness of the political press to look skeptically at arrangements between leading politicians and major television networks—so long as the politicians in question are Democrats, and the networks are not Rupert Murdoch’s.
Continetti shows how there is a partnership between the Clinton foundation and Univision, whose owner recently said that,
seeing Hillary Clinton in the White House “is a big dream of mine.”
Nor does Clinton have to worry about unfavorable coverage from Univision’s competitor, Telemundo. Comcast owns that growing network, just as it owns NBC and MSNBC. The CEO of Comcast is a golf pal of President Obama’s, and his political giving overwhelmingly favors Democrats. Comcast’s chief lobbyist is a Democratic bundler, who has raised millions for the president and has hosted the president for a lavish fundraising dinner. The president calls him “friend.”
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