Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Univision news reports fails to disclose ties to the Clinton Foundation

"The ties between the Clintons and the Spanish language television network run deep."
There was no mention of the network’s partnership with the Clinton Foundation in a May 4 segment on Univision’s nightly news program about allegations that donations to the foundation affected Hillary Clinton’s decisions during her tenure as secretary of state.

Talan [Univision spokeswoman] declined to respond specifically to questions about disclosing the network’s relationship with the foundation in its reporting.

Domenzain [a liberal strategist who was a founding producer on Univision’s Sunday news show “Al Punto” and who ran Obama’s Hispanic media outreach in the 2012 election] said she thought the network should always note the partnership whenever covering the Clinton Foundation.

“Even if it’s apolitical, for childhood education … given that the foundation most likely will be a center theme in this campaign, that yes, these are alliances that should be put out in the open,” Domenzain said. “When covering the political aspect of it, yes they should, and they’re going to be much more under the microscope because of that.”

Then there’s the subject of Univision’s owner, billionaire media mogul [Haim] Saban, who purchased Univision in 2007 along with a group of investors. Saban has donated as much as $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, and his wife sits on its board. He has said it’s a dream of his to see Hillary Clinton elected. The week before Bill Clinton’s Univision appearance, Saban hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in California.

“As much as is needed,” Saban said in July when asked by Bloomberg Politics how much he’d give to the Clinton campaign. “I think she would be great for the country and great for the world.”

Despite Saban’s Clinton fandom, a firewall exists between editorial and corporate, Univision’s Talan wrote in an email.

14 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Behold the historic transparency.

The Cltinons are 100% about pay-to-play. If there isn't money in it for them, they are not interested.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Hillary would be great for millionaires and billionaires.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Hillary will be great for the continued wealth-drain of the middle, upper middle, and moderately wealthy - while the Warren Buffet billionaires get richer.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

The poor will continue to mysteriously grow, homelessness will continue to rise without any mention in the pro-democrat elite blue media, and illegals immigrants will take all the jobs the welfare state won't do. Loyal voters are needed.
Somebody needs to clean the Facebook mansion.

AllenS said...

I seriously doubt if Univision's failure to disciose is the only one. They must have felt somewhat embarrassed about it.

virgil xenophon said...

@AprilApple/

Picky, picky, picky..

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Univision exists to promote Hillary Rodham. Even our blue media are taking note.


/Stop promoting her.... that's our job.

ricpic said...

Those Univision telenovelas are the worst! Worse that Bollywood. And I thought that was humanly impossible to be!

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Univison and Hillary have one objective: Get as many illegals over the border as possible, and get then a D-voter ID card - stat.

If you disagree with this, you are a racist.

ricpic said...

In both love and baseball you don't want to try to score from first base.

--Yogi Berra

And that's doubly true for catchers.

--Titus

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Rand Paul tweets Hillary's to-do list

edutcher said...
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edutcher said...

Willie wants to be the first Primera Senora.

Or maybe just the first to have a Senora.

If he can still work out the kink.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Oh lookie here.

What a shock.

A so called "journalist" gives 50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

He can be trusted as an impartial professional "journalist" - ...if you like your journalism incestuous and hacktastic.


Guess who it is?