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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Shocker: Slight Discrepancy Between Conservatives In Media And Conservatives In General Population

By Rob on March 18, 2008 at 04:27 pm
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But just a slight one:

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.”

I’m sure this has absolutely no impact on news coverage what-so-ever.

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Bat One

Would a real “Fairness Doctrine” now require that the media hire six times as many conservatives, and fire an equal number of liberal journalists?  A kind of affirmative action program at the expense of those who’ve made such a big deal of their diversity and inclusiveness.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on March 18, 2008 at 05:27 pm
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The majority of nationally ranked journalists — 53 percent — described themselves as moderate...

And the majority of those 53% are really more liberal than they think they are

JFH on March 18, 2008 at 06:07 pm
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