An October 23 New York Times article highlighted Republican candidates' use of Fox News as a fundraising platform, noting that "[t]he channel was the subject of an election complaint in Ohio because" GOP gubernatorial candidate and former Fox News employee John Kasich “was able to ask for money and display his Web site address during an interview in August on 'The O'Reilly Factor.'”

From the New York Times:

Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, and others strenuously object to the idea that Fox and MSNBC are opposite sides of the same coin. “Show me an example of us fund-raising,” he said in a recent interview.

Those examples exist at Fox. The channel was the subject of an election complaint in Ohio because Mr. Kasich was able to ask for money and display his Web site address during an interview in August on “The O'Reilly Factor,” Fox's biggest prime time talk show. Mr. Kasich used to host a weekend show on Fox, and Mr. Murdoch has called him a friend.

Mr. Daschle, whose group filed the complaint, called it “free advertising,” and recited Mr. Kasich's claim in a campaign speech that he raised over $21,000 in the 12 hours after the interview. The association withdrew its original complaint in order to amend it; Mr. Daschle said it would file a new complaint soon.