MSNBC Driving Visitors to Donate to Clinton Campaign

[babylonsister]

http://mediabloodhound.typepad.com/weblog/2008/01/breaking-msnbc.html


BREAKING: MSNBC Driving Visitors to Donate to Clinton Campaign

Hillary Clinton's name on MSNBC's Meet the Press homepage (she spoke with Tim Russert yesterday) is currently hyperlinked directly to Clinton's campaign website, where visitors are prominently encouraged to "Drive Hillary's campaign to victory by donating today."

There is no contextual reason for this. The link, for example, is not an allusion to an aspect of her campaign's web presence or fundraising strategies. Rather, it's merely her name in the headline (see "Sen. Hillary Clinton" below, the hyperlink in question, under "Sunday, Jan. 13."):

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http://mediabloodhound.typepad.com/weblog/2008/01/breaking-msnbc.html

Looking back at appearances of other 2008 presidential candidates, I've found no evidence that any of them has received the same treatment from Meet the Press on MSNBC's website, including her two closest rivals for the nomination, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

So the question remains: Why is MSNBC driving their visitors to contribute to Hillary Clinton's campaign?

Certainly this is a breach of the most basic journalistic ethics or a huge gaffe. Either way, the result is the same.

[Mutineer]

1. And this is a shock how exactly?

she is the corporate media's candidate.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. LOL

Oh my god! Hyperlinking!

They've had many presidential candidates on. Is this the only time they've ever done that? Sounds like more hyperventilating blog-nonsense.

[99th_Monkey]

3. MSNBC seems to be going out of their way to show their asses tonight

1) dis-inviting DK
2) getting slapped down by NV judge to include DK
3) appealing the judge's decision

.. and now THIS??

what? are they going to fire KO tomorrow? what's up with this shit?

[ursi]

4. what assholes!

[Renew Deal]

5. This is a non-issue

Unfortunately, the first page you see on these sites ask you to donate. NBC can't control that.

[gateley]

6. That's the front page of her campaign website -- I just typed in hillaryclinton

and that's the page that opened to me.

They've linked to other candidates' campaign websites, too -- this just happens to be her front page.

I bet the next candidate they have on will have a hyperlink to their site, too.

[TwilightZone]

7. Oh, my goodness. What a shock! A campaign asking for money!

This is just getting too silly for words. JohnEdwards.com has the nerve to ask for money on its front page, too.

[Alexander]

8. But the Hillbots here say Obama's the MSM favorite, so it MUST be true!

:sarcasm:

[jenmito]

9. It was probably a condition they agreed to for her to go on MTP. n/t