This won’t surprise anybody who has been paying attention at all to the Left-wing bias are media has shown since …. forever?
Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as “conservative†in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and radio networks, daily newspapers, news wires and online sources…
In contrast, 36 percent of the overall population generally consider themselves conservative.
There are more conservatives in broadcast than print — 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Among online journalists the figure was 8 percent.
The majority of nationally ranked journalists — 53 percent — described themselves as moderate, 24 percent were liberal and 8 percent “very liberal.â€
What biased media?, indeed.
I’m sure that the 90% of college professors that are Liberal don’t understand what the problem is here….
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Ace has this fantastic headline:
So become a journalist.
The majority of nationally ranked journalists — 53 percent — described themselves as moderate
The interesting thing is that they tend to live in an insulated world. Their views perfectly match the vast majority of those around them, so they smugly consider themselves “moderate”. If their views were compared to the broader cross-section of Americans, I seriously doubt that they would fall anywhere near the middle of the political spectrum.
Another of those knock me over with a feather moments.
Dangit Robbie, I’m getting tired of picking myself off of the floor with your posts.
/henh
It doesn’t surprise me that individuals who forsake lucrative jobs and choose instead to pursue careers that better their communities (like teaching or journalism) would start out as liberal. But if you were to look at their actions they apparently quickly fall in line with the corporate culture they depend on.
This study shows (what we knew) that the media relies on conservative sources and memes (such as those propagated by conservative blogs):
If you add the Drudge Report and Mark Halperin- two mainstays- journalists are getting huge amounts of their own information from avowedly conservative sources.
It doesn’t surprise me that individuals who forsake lucrative jobs and choose instead to pursue careers that better their communities
That requires a pretty huge leap of faith on your part.
First, it assumes that they would be capable of acquiring and excelling at a more lucrative job.
Secondly it assumes not only that journalism itself serves to “better their communities” but that the contribution of this specific hypothetical journalist does so as well.
I would agree with you that people with certain outlooks and predispositions are drawn to such fields…which goes a long way toward explaining why members seem so homogenous in outlook, but I wouldn’t be so quick to elevate them to sainthood.
Well, this is a tangent but it’s not such a leap of faith to suggest that someone with a college degree and writing skills good enough to land a job at a newspaper could be making a good deal more than the $28 K they start out at in average.
As for the second point- the only thing that matters is that people drawn to journalism believe that they will be providing a service to their communities that justifies the lower salary they earn.