The Daily Caller surveyed Paramount and CBS executives and found that only one executive, Paramount executive vice president and chief technology officer Paul Weiser, had recently donated to the Republican Party. In the 2024 election cycle, Weiser said he would be a Republican. Made a donation He donated $520.50 and $100 to support candidates Nikki Haley and Chris Christie, respectively, and donated an unspecified $250 to WinRed, a popular Republican fundraising platform.
Justin Dini, Paramount's executive vice president and head of public affairs, appears to have donated at least $535 to the Harris presidential campaign, $335 to the Harris Victory Fund and $800 to the Democratic House of Representatives Campaign Committee as part of a long-running string of donations in the 2024 election cycle. According to To FEC Records.
Dini donated to Harris' 2020 presidential bid the next day. Infamous debate moment There, she suggested that Joe Biden supports racist policies and is too close to his old racist colleagues in the Senate.
Other members of the CBS and Paramount leadership teams have donated to other Democratic campaigns. Claudine Milne, senior vice president of standards and practices for CBS News and Stations, donated $50 to the Wisconsin Democratic Party in September 2020. record “We are pleased to be working with Paramount Global to bring this technology to life,” said Dede Lee, executive vice president of public policy and government relations for Paramount Global. Donated $5,000 to the campaign of Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks. donated $500 to Glen Ivey's congressional run; Donate $500 to Congresswoman Joyce Beatty's 2022 campaign According to To FEC Records.
Neither of the debate moderators, Norah O'Donnell nor Margaret Brennan, appear to make political donations.
CBS and Paramount did not respond to The Daily Caller's requests for comment.
People watch the presidential debate at a debate viewing party at Shaw's Tavern in Washington, DC on September 10, 2024. Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump face off in their first debate on Tuesday night at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Last Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in what was expected to be the final presidential debate of the campaign, debate moderator bias became a hot topic. After the debate, many conservative pundits and commentators expressed frustration with ABC News' frequent fact-checking of Trump while ignoring Harris' false statements.
Conservative viewers accused the ABC host of bias in his questioning, harshly criticizing President Trump and his shifts on abortion rights, but not following up on Harris when she dodged questions about her own frequent policy changes.
“This moderation is pretty bad. I think the average voter is going to think, 'Kamala's not lying,' or, 'Why is ABC only checking one side?'”
Prejudice is #Debate2024 It's insane. Every question ABC has asked has an angle attacking Trump in the question. If you don't know any better you would think Trump, not Kamala, has been in office for the last 3.5 years. They are allowing Kamala to lie and refusing to face up to her record of failure.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 11, 2024
Yes, but that doesn't matter: ABC is fully supporting Harris, so Trump will benefit from its extraordinary anti-Trump bias. https://t.co/TsgC0I1TSP
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 11, 2024
Ahead of the ABC News debate, The New York Times detail Harris' relationship with Dana Walden, a top executive at Disney, the parent company of ABC. Walden and Harris met in 1994 and the husbands have been friends since the 1980s, the outlet reported, noting that the vice president had joked about meeting Doug Emhoff through Walden.
According to the New York Times, Walden and her husband have donated to Harris' campaign since 2003. ABC responded to the New York Times article, arguing that Walden has no influence over the debates and only oversees the news division's budget and staffing levels. The last time the Disney executive hosted a fundraiser for Harris was in June 2022, when he took over as ABC News director.
Catherine Herridge, the award-winning investigative journalist who was fired by CBS News in February, told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson that she was “in some ways [her] The lens looked at Biden and his son Hunter.
“I have always tried to be respectful of my former employers, and I testified before Congress that there was tension over Biden coverage, particularly as I turned my attention to President Biden,” Herridge told Carlson in July.
