Black newspaper publishers say Dems and GOP are not giving them fair ad share
/The Republican and Democratic National
Committees each spent more than $30 million on advertising and other
media-related expenses leading up to the November presidential
election. In both instances, however, the proportion they spent with
the black media appears to be less than half of their respective black
base. According to a special computer-assisted report conducted for the
National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service by the Center
for Responsive Politics, a Washington, D.C.- based research firm that
operates OpenSecrets.org, the DNC spent approximately $30,443,565 on
media while Republicans spent approximately $32,597,491 for
media-related expenses in the Nov. 2 election in which President Bush
beat Sen. John Kerry. DNC spokeswoman Daniella Gibbs Léger said the DNC
spent $3.2 million with black media during the last election. [more]
