Over 90% of the media is liberal. This study is bogus.
The study isn't bogus, the data is bogus. If you look at the study, liberals in the news media overwhelmingly identified themselves as moderates, not liberals. This is the big disconnect in the media--liberals actually think their ideology and philosophy is representative of American society as a whole, therefore they are mainstream centrists, or moderates.
I think the Pew folks would have done better to apply a test to each response, e.g. ask respondents who they voted for in the last 3-4 presidential elections, or whether they tend to overwhelmingly vote for democrats. If they do, then this "moderate" is more likely a liberal and gets labeled as such.
You are correct. In this study, they allowed the reporter to describe themselves as liberal or moderate or conservative, and naturally nearly all liberals call themselves "moderate" due to the fact that most liberals are deceiptful in the first place.
Of the two newspaper newsroom I've been intimately involved with, the news writing staff REALLY WAS 90 percent liberal.
The Bucks County Courier Times, near Philly, supported Clinton by a 19-4 margin in 1996 (I actually went around and polled each writer and editor in the newsroom)
At the paper I am at now, the newsroom hates President Bush by a tally of 11-2.
And I mean they HATE president Bush to the point of making juvenile and derogitory comments each time GWB is shown on the TV saying something in a speech.
I am the only person who admits to their preference, which to me is the first step toward being a truly objective reporter.
The liberals assume themselves to be so superior, so correct in thier biases that they feel no guilt about putting them into their work.
Needless to say, I've been getting an ulcer in recent months as the entire media (almost) is drooling over themselves with the thought they are destroying evil, racist Republicans.