Say Anything Blog

A couple of choice excerpts from an MSNBC article that tries to paint this lopsided political divide as less...lopsided than it really is:

MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties. . . .

The pattern of donations, with nearly nine out of 10 giving to Democratic candidates and causes, appears to confirm a leftward tilt in newsrooms — at least among the donors, who are a tiny fraction of the roughly 100,000 staffers in newsrooms across the nation.

Now I think a person can make an argument that some journalists are capable of divorcing their personal political views, however deeply held, from their work.  But by no means does that mean all journalists are capable of such a feat, which means that when a reporter lets their ideology bleed into one of their articles 90% of the time the bias is going to be for liberal causes.  Not conservative causes.

Which leaves us with the liberal media most on the left refuse to confirm exists.