Chamber of Commerce/politics

Steve Grube grube at ix.netcom.com
Wed Oct 27 05:13:02 PDT 1999


This is another typical example of a press release being

published, parading as journalism. If there was actually

a journalist behind the article, the minimum required in

balance would be to point out that business outspends

labor by a huge multiple, something like eight times.

But the press release is allowed to give the impression

that *labor* is the big spender. -Steve Grube

From: New York Times 10/26/99:

Business Seeks a Bigger Role in Campaigns for Congress

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON

[excerpt]

"Thomas J. Donohue, the chamber's president, said the group would spend at least $100,000 in each race, for a total of nearly $5 million.

The total is a fraction of the $40 million that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. plans to spend this year and next to benefit candidates supported by organized labor, almost all of them Democrats."



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