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Noah Vail
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| More Myths? Sheesh! First I find the Moon Landings are myths, then Auschwitz, now this!
Well, now that I am fully enlightened we can assume that if the current president had a D after his name there would be NO DIFFERENCE in the war coverage.
We can certainly evidence that by reading back all the negative editorials and constant stream of negatively focused bylines that were written about Somalia and Mogadishu......
all that negative press......hmm.
Well, it was there. Right between 540-Rooms for Rent and 560-Geriatric Supplies.
huh.
Well there was all that doom and gloom press before we went into Bosnia and Serbia like before we went into Iraq. And then constant second guessing Clinton while the wars went on.
Oh? None?
I guess the NYT-LAt-WAPst missed those wars. Well they probably had a charity event that weekend.
Well they certainly nailed Clinton to the tree for that Aspirin Factory bombing. Wheh! CBS must have covered that for 10, maybe 15 seconds! But it was a SCATHING 15 seconds.
Well, at least Newsweek covered the Sitting President - Lewinski thing with the same gusto they covered the George Bush DWI of 20 years ago.
No wait. Newsweek initially tried to bury the Lewinski story. Sorry. Forgot about that.
Well, I'm certain that having 75%-90% Journalists identifying themselves as Democrats vs. >10% Republicans has NO EFFECT AT ALL on our news coverage.
Oh! The #1 reason given in college to become a journalist?
"I want to help change the world"
Hmmm.
NV
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Noah Vail
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| And the winner is....... Will a comparison between Dem and Non-Dem do for you?
Well there is this 1995 poll by the Roper Center for the Freedom Forum showed that 89 percent of Washington reporters polled voted for Bill Clinton. (RC is partnered by NYT, WPst and others.) That's about double the percentage of the country that voted for him. Not exactly a representative sample of US citizens.
And then there's a survey by the American Association of Newspaper Editors of over 1000 journalists in 1996 found that 61% of newsroom staffers identified themselves as Liberal/Democratic while only 15% were Conservative/Republican.
You can stick Libertarian journalists (both of them) anywhere you want in there and it won't change the outcome.
There's this nifty tidbit unearthed by NYT journalist John Tierney prior to the 2004 election showing a 3to1 preference for Kerry by journalists assigned to cover the election and a 12to1 preference for Kerry by journalists inside the beltway. There are several other instances in the article illustrating bias.
Sorry, I have to give a Google Cache link unless you want to pay for NYT archive browsing.
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These journalist preference ratios are WAY off election results. They are nowhere near a representative sampling of the American Public.
What percentage of Americans are registered Libertarians? What percentage of Journalists are registered Libertarians? Blessed few I'd bet. I doubt they have any meaningful effect on the above numbers.
I'll wait here for your numbers that show that there really are as many conservatives as there are liberals in journalism.
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JoeOnSunset
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| Re: And the winner is....... Even if there were more 'liberal' reporters than 'conservative,' which would be an overwhelmingly simplistic view, it doesn't mean the news media is liberal.
The news media is a complex system and the journalists and reporters are beholden to much bigger forces than their own personal politics. Namely the forces I described in my post. | |
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