Last year Rupe's News Corp spent more than $5 mil on lobbyists. CBS, nearly $4 mil. NBC only $443,000. Former National Association of Broadcasters head Eddie Fritts pocketed some of the dough from News Corp and CBS. The big bucks were spent by cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast.
Media lobbying in the New Era Of Obama.“My hope is that guys like me running around lobbying are doing it because we believe in the cause that we represent, and we think we are helping policy-makers get to the right answer by having good information, not because I slipped some Mickey to a member at a party.”
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