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NEW YORK -- Several news organizations gained rare access Saturday into a private gathering of influential Republican donors hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit organization backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch.
But journalists covering the three-day event, held at a luxurious California resort, had to agree to an unusual restriction. They werent allowed to report the names of any of the 450 donors attending without the individuals permission.
The Washington Posts Matea Gold disclosed in a Saturday night piece that her paper was one of nine news organizations allowed in to cover the traditionally private confab, on the condition that the donors present not be named without their permission. Politicos Ken Vogel also noted the ground rules in his story published around the same time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/02/journalists-private-koch-brothers-donors_n_7920500.html
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)American Journalism at most is dead. Resurrection of the integrity of Journalism needs to happen asap.
Fred Sanders
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(135,924 posts)old guy
(3,284 posts)tblue37
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(13,270 posts)who receive most of the money from the campaigns as the electoral season grinds on and on. The media has absolutely no interest in exposing the truth about corporate domination of the electoral process.
We need to start thinking about where the campaigns are spending all these millions, not just about where the donations are coming from.