Posted on 07/24/2002 12:59:18 PM PDT by Clink
I'm currently having a "debate" with a bleeding heart liberal (who tells me that he is a moderate) that loves Bill Clinton. He goes so far as to state that Bill Clinton will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents. I told him that he was half right, that Bill Clinton would go down.
Anyway, this poor demented soul does not believe that there is a liberal bias in the media. When I told him that 80% of the media voted Democratic he did not believe me and asked me to provide a cite. I distinctly remember reading this but cannot remember where. If anyone can point me to a cite of this I would be greatly appreciative. If possible, point me to a "liberal" source or he will claim that I got it off of one of my "right-wing nazi sites".
JOURNALISTS `APOLITICAL'? Studies show most call themselves liberals who vote for Democrats
That newsrooms are mostly staffed by political liberals is pretty much beyond dispute, although a few keep trying to argue the point. CBS anchorman Dan Rather -- who declined to be interviewed for this story -- frequently says journalists are apolitical. ''Most reporters don't know whether they're Republican or Democrat, and vote every which way . . . [They] would fall in the general category of kind of common-sense moderates,'' he said in 1995.
But there are plenty of studies, dating back to the 1930s, that prove him wrong: Most journalists describe themselves as liberal and vote Democratic, and among the profession's elite -- the staffs of the three major networks, the weekly news magazines and influential papers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times -- the political skew is overwhelmingly to the left:
• A comprehensive study published in 1981 by the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs showed that 54 percent of elite journalists identified themselves as liberal but only 19 percent as conservatives. In every presidential election between 1964 and 1976, at least 80 percent of them voted Democratic.
• A 1996 study of Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents by the independent journalism foundation Freedom Forum found that 89 percent of them voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, and just 7 percent for George Bush. Sixty-one percent said they were liberals, only 9 percent conservatives; 50 percent were Democrats, only 4 percent Republicans.
Whether the personal politics of journalists color their reporting is more difficult to pin down, although some of Goldberg's arguments about distorted stories are statistically verifiable.
It took 2 minutes for me to find this. give the lib. some facts.
copy paste link below:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/columnists/glenn_garvin/2879898.htm
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Well, you'll never find anything of the kind on the Gallup site for one simple reason - Gallup polls THE PUBLIC. It does not poll within orgranizations nor within a business-community subset. Since the eastern press is a business-community subset and not the general public, Gallup would have no reason to poll them.
For another look, get your friend to read "Coloring The News" by William McGowan. It's a much more scholarly look at the situation than Bernie's "Bias," which is more anecdotal in nature.
Michael
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