What percentage of big campaign spending goes to the M$M ?

[kentuck]

...this would include MSNBC and FOX along with all the other major networks?

They have a vested interest in getting those billions of dollars in campaign expenditures. They want a horse race. They want to talk about polls. They want to tell personal stories about all the candidates with money. They want as many ads on their network as they can get. It is about their bottom line.

It is not about serving or informing the American people. They could less about the issues. They are a big part of the problem.

[arcane1]

1. All those commercials... I wonder if the rates change during election season?

A billion dollars per party, all spent on ads. The mind boggles.

Know what else makes my mind boggle? That there are people who can be swayed by a 30-second campaign commercial.

[Fred Sanders]

6. An excellent question about the ad rates and total take by the media..wonder if the media will

report on this vital topic?

[leftofcool]

2. ad buys are the biggest expense which is why you need at least a billion for 2016.

[mother earth]

3. And they want to tell us who the frontrunners are constantly, the same candidates their sponsors

support...what a surprise.

[valerief]

4. I think a lot of the money goes to buying the loyalty of local authorities--police, election

officials, mayors. Money goes to ensure votes are bought, from dumping ballots to flipping electronic votes to fucking with servers. Also to local pastors for illegal endorsements.

[Fred Sanders]

5. If the MSM started reporting on political corruption by money they would have to report on their own

political corruption by the very same newly unleashed CU money.

The fact Sanders is running is going to be a real problem for them, bless Bernie's soul.

[Stuart G]

7. Great Question...Don't know the answer

k and r...nt

[hunter]

8. Most all of it if you include mass mailings, intenet ad, roadside, lawn sign, and pamphlet printers.

Our political system is owned, our mass media is owned, and maybe a third or more of our population doesn't see that, and a dangerous percentage more feel powerless and think they can't do anything about it, not even bothering to vote.