Murdoch's News Corp Gives $1M to GOP Govs

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday August 17, 2010

The parent corporation of FoxNews made a $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association.

Politico's Ben Smith reports:

The company's media outlets play politics more openly than most, but the huge contribution to a party committee is a new step toward an open identification between Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the GOP. The company's highest-ranking Democratic executive, Peter Chernin, recently departed.

The $1 million contribution this June 24 was first reported by Bloomberg and appears on the RGA's July 15 filing with the Internal Revenue Service.

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