Journalists shower Hillary Clinton with campaign cash
Far fewer making contributions to Donald Trump, analysis shows
By Dave Levinthal
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016...-campaign-cash

New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster running an "ugly and xenophobic campaign."

What Nussbaum didn't disclose in her dispatches: she contributed $250 to Democrat Hillary Clinton in April....

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...Conventional journalistic wisdom holds that reporters and editors are referees on politics' playing field — bastions of neutrality who mustn't root for Team Red or Team Blue, either in word or deed.

But during this decidedly unconventional election season, during which "the media" has itself become a prominent storyline, several hundred news professionals have aligned themselves with Clinton or Trump by personally donating money to one or the other....

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...Nearly all of that money — more than 96 percent — has benefited Clinton: About 430 people who work in journalism have, through August, combined to give about $382,000 to the Democratic nominee, the Center for Public Integrity's analysis indicates....