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
Doublethink Is Doubleplus Ungood.
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| 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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