Yet another U.S.-based news network has donated to the Clinton Foundation but failed to disclose this information with its viewers,
The Washington Free Beacon reported.
Azteca America, a U.S. Spanish-language news network that has previously lobbied the State Department about U.S. policies toward Mexico during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, continues to cover the 2016 presidential race where she is a Democratic primary candidate, the Free Beacon reported.
The company's parent, TV Azteca, is located inside Mexico. It has "employed two Clinton confidantes since late 2008 to lobby the State Department on various initiatives affecting U.S. relations with Mexico," the Free Beacon said.
The Beacon added: "Mexican parent TV Azteca, a foundation associated with the company, and that foundation’s U.S. counterpart, have together donated as much as $375,000 to the Clinton Foundation," citing information from the company's website.
Azteca has 16 stations in U.S., including "in nine of the country’s top ten Hispanic media markets." It is a competitor to more well-known Latin television networks like Telemundo and Univision. But the Free Beacon said that "Azteca’s coverage occasionally bleeds into policy advocacy, according to the
Fundacion Azteca America, its philanthropic arm."
Quoting the Fundacion's website, the Free Beacon said: “Azteca America donates screen time, its most valuable asset, to Fundacion Azteca America in order to educate, fundraise and create awareness on important issues facing the Latino community in the United States."
The network, which has lobbied behind the scenes and hired a U.S. firm with deep Clinton ties, Ickes & Enright, to help, "has pushed for a number of initiatives that have no direct bearing on its broadcasting work and has covered those initiatives without disclosing their lobbying work on those initiatives' behalf," the Free Beacon said.
The network's inattention to transparency is yet another example of media quietly giving money to the Clinton Foundation, which has been under scrutiny for taking money from foreign governments in exchange for what some critics have said is U.S. influence.
Previously, ABC News host George Stephanopoulos was forced to acknowledge he gave $75,000 to the foundation. He had served as a White House spokesman during the Bill Clinton administration.
Stephanopoulos (who apologized on air for failing to disclose the donations) was not alone, however.
Politico reported that dozens of media organizations as well as individuals have given to the foundation over the years.
Among those contributing include NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters, as well as Comcast, Time Warner and Viacom and Newsmax, Politico said, citing foundation records.
Writing in
USA Today, author Peter Schweizer said that "though Stephanopoulos belatedly reported $75,000 in donations to the foundation, he has yet to disclose his much deeper relationship with the Clinton Foundation."
He added: "Indeed, far from being a passive donor who strokes Clinton Foundation checks from afar, a closer look reveals that Stephanopoulos is an ardent and engaged Clinton Foundation advocate."
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