he Media Research Center’s attempt to spin away News Corp.’s $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association gets another failed turn by Tim Graham, who uses an Aug. 18 NewsBusters post complaining that the Washington Post’s article on the donation is “ruined by reality” because the Post also noted that “Until now, the News Corp./Fox political action committee had given 54 percent of its donations to Democrats and 46 percent to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.”
But as Ben Demiro of Media Matters points out, Graham ignores the key words “Until now” and the obvious implication that such a balance in News Corp.’s political contributions no longer exists due to the $1 million donation.
Like fellow MRC employee Dan Gainor before him, Graham can’t point to a similar cash donation made by a news organization to a liberal political group, which would also seem to undermine his premist.