Political contributions by bigwigs at Time Warner, owner of CNN

[DeepModem Mom]

Thanks to actappan for posting information that led to this search. Record of contributions comes from www.fundrace.org.


Time Warner Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Parsons: Bush, $2,000

Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Chairman, Entertainment & Networks Group, which includes CNN: Kerry, $2,000

Board members on the site:

James Barksdale: Bush, $2,000
Stephen Bollenbach: Clark, $2,000
Stephen Case: Bush, $2,000
Frank Caufield: Kerry, $2,000
Miles Gilburne: DNC, $12,500; Clark, $2,000; Dean, $2,000; Gephardt, $2,000; Kerry, $2,000
Carla Hills: Bush, $2,000
Kenneth Novack: DNC, $30,000; Kerry, $2,000
Francis T. Vincent: Bush, $2,000


Financial information about Time Warner can be found at this link, provided by actappan: http://money.cnn.com/news/companies/research/research.html?pg=sn&symb=TWX


I have no idea what, if anything, all this tells us about CNN's recent sharp turn to the right. (It would be interesting to have a conversation with Mr. Bewkes.)

[Pachamama]

1. Good Question - their sudden flip to the right has given me whiplash & I

can't figure it out...its freaky....What's up? :eyes:

[gardenista]

2. Rove is probably threatening to give all the ad money to another network.

Probably playing all of them against each other to see who can get that last golden nugget they'll spend in August. They're all in their kneepads, auditioning.

[proud patriot]

3. Is Kenneth Novack related to Bob ?

sorry to go off topic but that name caught my eye.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Different spelling -- Bob Novak lacks the "c"

[DaveSZ]

5. Hmm

Well, Rove is a master at manipulating the media.