Singleton, Scaife among political contributors (from media)

[Newsjock]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2076212

By Joe Strupp
Published: January 26, 2004

While their newspapers are busy covering the elections of 2004, owners and top executives of some of the country's largest papers and chains are busy contributing to candidates -- or at least their money-hungry political parties, according to campaign finance records filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Richard Scaife, the outspoken conservative publisher of the Tribune-Review in Pittsburgh tops the list with a $25,000 donation to the Republican National Committee last July, while also giving $2,000 to George Bush's re-election campaign and $4,000 to the U.S. Senate bid of Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Pat Toomey.

Across town, William Block Jr., chairman of Block Communications, which owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, offered two $250 contributions to the Democratic National Committee in 2003.

In other family newspaper finances, George R. Hearst, chairman of the board of The Hearst Corp. of New York gave $1,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, while his cousin, William R Hearst III -- grandson of William Randolph Hearst and former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner -- donated $2,000 to the Joe Lieberman for President campaign and another $2,000 to VenturePac, a political action committee supporting issues related to venture capital firms.

The Murdoch family showed its political leanings with a $2,000 donation to the Bush-Cheney campaign from Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., who also sent $2,000 to Sen. John McCain's 2004 re-election effort and the same amount to the campaign of California Republican Congressman Bill Thomas.

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As if $500 is the same as $25,000 ...

[HootieMcBoob]

1. The Post Gazette has a much larger cirulation than the Tribune

But Scaife has all that Mellon money and the paper is totally right wing whereas the Post-Gazette is a real newspaper. Just like Murdoch and the New York Post -- never has a profit. Same with The Washington Times.

[Logansquare]

2. Scaife--when will the evil bastard run out of money?

I wish the mf would buy 20 failing newspapers and run himself into the ground.

[UpInArms]

3. here's a link to a very interesting

timeline of the Mellon fortune

http://www.mellon.com/aboutmellon/history.html