{"id":13230,"date":"2015-11-11T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/fox-business-shows-people-want-to-hear-about-money-in-politics-yet-no-questions-are-asked-again\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T21:54:00","slug":"fox-business-shows-people-want-to-hear-about-money-in-politics-yet-no-questions-are-asked-again","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/fox-business-shows-people-want-to-hear-about-money-in-politics-yet-no-questions-are-asked-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Business Shows People Want To Hear About Money in Politics, yet No Questions Are Asked (Again)"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13230","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Last night’s Republican debate was the fifth presidential debate of the 2016 election season and the fifth debate that left out one of the most important issues voters face: the problem of big money in politics.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8296}"],"related_issues":[137,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

SIGN THE PETITION >><\/a><\/strong> Tell debate moderators to ask candidates how they'd get big money out of politics!<\/a><\/p>

Last night’s Republican debate was the fifth presidential debate of the 2016 election season and the fifth debate that left out one of the most important issues voters face: the problem of big money in politics.<\/p>

About an hour before the Fox Business\/Wall Street Journal debate ended last night, the network showed a word cloud of issues viewers on Facebook were talking about and hoped to be brought up in the debate. The biggest issues: homeland security, taxes, the size of government, and campaign finance. Throughout the debate, the moderators asked and candidates promptly responded to questions regarding national and homeland security, the size of the federal government, and each candidates’ tax plan. The one top issue that was not brought up: campaign finance.<\/p>

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In a way, it’s not all that surprising that a money-in-politics question has not come up in the debates so far. The TV networks who have hosted the presidential debates – Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Fox Business – are raking in huge sums of money in advertising dollars from political and issue ads. Just this week, Jeb Bush’s Super PAC anunciado<\/a> it was buying $6.6 million in ad time on Fox News. The New York Times estimated that TV spending reached $2 mil millones<\/a> in the 2014 midterm elections. It will likely be double that for this election season – if not more – with a national presidential election. That means big profits for TV networks and cable companies.<\/p>

Cable and TV networks’ invested interest in profiting off our broken democracy explains why the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (a lobbying group for Comcast, Charter Communications, Disney, Cox Communications, Viacom, FOX Networks, and Time Warner Cable)  <\/span>and National Amusements (the parent of CBS & Viacom) both lobbied against the Ley de DIVULGACI\u00d3N<\/a> in Congress, a bill that would bring more transparency to political ads. The National Cable and Telecommunications Association has also lobbied against<\/a> a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United.  <\/span><\/p>

Just like we need to hold politicians accountable to voters, we need to hold media outlets accountable too. A recent New York Times poll<\/a> shows that over 80% of the American public want to fundamentally change or completely overhaul the way political campaigns are funded. It’s time both the presidential candidates and news networks hosting future presidential debates – CBS, CNN, ABC, Fox News, NBC, Univision, and PBS – listen to the public.<\/p>

Candidates and media outlets should be guided by the priorities laid out in the Agenda de lucha contra el gran dinero<\/a>:<\/p>

(1)       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Todos participan<\/strong>:proporcionar fondos p\u00fablicos que amplificar\u00e1n las peque\u00f1as donaciones a candidatos federales que acepten reducir los l\u00edmites de contribuci\u00f3n.<\/p>

(2)       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Se escucha la voz de todos:<\/strong> reducir las barreras de acceso a las urnas, aumentar la participaci\u00f3n y establecer l\u00edmites significativos a las contribuciones.<\/p>

(3)       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Todo el mundo sabe qui\u00e9n intenta influir en nuestras opiniones y en nuestros representantes:<\/strong> exigir la divulgaci\u00f3n del gasto pol\u00edtico trabajando para aprobar leyes en el Congreso, impulsando la reglamentaci\u00f3n de las agencias ejecutivas y emitiendo una orden ejecutiva sobre la divulgaci\u00f3n del gasto pol\u00edtico de los contratistas federales.<\/p>

(4)       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Todos juegan seg\u00fan reglas justas y de sentido com\u00fan:<\/strong> revocar Citizens United a trav\u00e9s de una enmienda constitucional y cambiar el enfoque de la Corte Suprema sobre el dinero en la pol\u00edtica con futuros nombramientos.<\/p>

(5)       <\/span><\/span><\/span>Todos son responsables y se les imponen sanciones exigibles para disuadir el mal comportamiento:<\/strong> reformar la FEC para que los infractores de la ley rindan cuentas y cerrar los Super PAC de candidatos individuales.<\/p>

Los periodistas deben preguntar, los moderadores del debate deben preguntar, los ciudadanos deben preguntar: ahora que todos estamos de acuerdo en que hay un problema, \u00bfqu\u00e9 van a hacer espec\u00edficamente y qu\u00e9 tan pronto despu\u00e9s de ser elegidos?<\/p>

Don't let another opportunity slip away. Tell the next debate's moderators to get candidates on the record.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

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