Feinberg, a thoughtful and weary leader who escapes his burdens by listening to Wagner, muses about why some tragedies produce an outpouring of private donations — cable-news narratives can sway emotions — and explains why he doesn't visit claimants in the hospital.
Local newspapers mention the charity's donations, and cable stations show appearances by Mr. Baca and his family at functions his foundation supports.
Such profound truths may earn him donations from the cable industry, which has traditionally leaned toward the Democrats, but they certainly will not help America to get the modern telecoms law it badly needs.
Such profound truths may earn him donations from the cable-TV industry, which has traditionally leant toward the Democrats, but they will not help America to get the modern telecoms regulations it badly needs.
Lastly, and most dubiously, Republican members of Congress, more so than Democrats, count on the generous donations of the telecoms and cable industries to fund their reelection campaigns, and, well, promises were probably made.
The group went after the Web sites of companies like MasterCard and PayPal, which had refused to process donations to WikiLeaks after it disclosed confidential diplomatic cables.
Penn's center was built with a $15 million donation from the Roberts family of the Comcast cable fortune, plus money from Penn's affiliated hospitals and the government.
Donations were down during its annual telethon on a local cable station, a sign of the lingering recession.
You could expand your cable service, visit a casino, make a political donation, give to a faith-based concern, or put the money in something the brokers call a flort.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Harold Strauss Endowed Scholarship Fund, University of Miami School of Business, POB 248032, Coral Cables, FL 33124-6521 or Brandeis University National Women's Committee, POB 549110, Waltham, MA 02454.
In a statement, Cable said: "There was a short delay in registering one donation to my campaign.
