FOX lawyer admits affilliate station undercharged GOP for ads!

[Pab Sungenis]

From PoliticsNJ.com:

"An attorney for the Fox TV affiliate in Philadelphia says that Democratic claims that the GOP underpaid for TV ads is legitimate and that commercials aired on behalf of State Sen. George Geist but paid for by the Republican State Committee should have been at a higher rate. Last Friday, Democratic lawyers said the Republicans also paid the wrong rate for ads on New York network TV."

See the actual letter here: http://www.politicsnj.com/fox102703.htm

[CarlBallard]

1. Well they are failr and balanced (n/t)

[MichDem10]

2. That's Fox for you...

That's Fox for you...

"Fair and Balanced"... NOT!

[Girlfriday]

3. Welcome to DU MichDem

:hi:

[MichDem10]

4. Thank you!

I am pleased to be here!

:kick: No to Bush 2004 :nuke:

[yellowcanine]

5. So Fox contributed to the GOP?

Aren't corporate contributions to political parties illegal?

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Republicans do this kind of garbage all the time.

I'm glad to see it being outed.

[Frodo]

7. Isn't there a difference between FOX and FoxNews?

Who owns Fox?

[grannylib]

9. I believe it's Rupert Murdoch...

[DemDogs]

8. This is really outrageous

And I hope they string up the GOP AND Fox on this. How did this happen? Did they collude?

[Pab Sungenis]

10. I don't know....

But it could be that someone in the sales department or management "looked the other way" when the orders came through. It wouldn't surprise me.

There should be heavy fines all around on this.

And just to make it clear: WTXF is not a Fox affiliate, it is a Fox OWNED AND OPERATED (O&O) station. So is WNYW in New York, which apparently may have been doing the same thing.

[Lefty48197]

11. Is this a legal campaign contribution?

Or will someone feel the wrath of Ashcroft's new "maximum penalties" program?