[kenth]

Excepting the period right after 9/11, we can disregard 50% of most any poll about the President. At least 50% of the people are ruled by emotion and the leftist hive mentality that hates the President.

Take into account the types of poll conducted by Newsweek, et al, and you could probably disregard 75% of it.

What in the world caused the media to be filled with leftists? I wonder if it’s the savior mentality that some see of the reporter field. The left leaning do seem to favor discussing problems instead of actually fixing them. They believe they can affect change not by actually getting their hands dirty, but by forcing others to do so by writing about the problems.

[roses of sharon]

Leftists are more susceptible to propaganda I guess, and they indoctrinate easily somehow.

Maybe since they hate real work, most become journalists?

[AFPhys]

What in the world caused the media to be filled with leftists?
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In the 60s & 70s, the VietNam protesters provoked by sKerry and Fonda and SDS encouraged their liberal comrades to go into journalism so they could “change the world”... Many tried the field out, and found that it was a LOT easier to get good grades there (especially with the support of their leftist professors) than in the engineering and classics and other “useful skills” classes they had been taken.

Voila: Leftist Journalists... who of course believe they are all “main stream” thinkers.

[AFPhys]

by the way: what I wrote in post#21 wasn’t “suspicion” ... I witnessed this explicitly on many occasions, and over a dozen students I knew changed their majors.

[HitmanLV]

Excepting the period right after 9/11, we can disregard 50% of most any poll about the President. At least 50% of the people are ruled by emotion and the leftist hive mentality that hates the President.

You can't discount them. They are still people and many of them vote.

[Lancey Howard]

They believe they can affect change not by actually getting their hands dirty, but by forcing others to do so by writing about the problems.

Excellent point. It fits.

What is it that Democrats do? They walk into the polling place and vote for big government to confiscate more and more money - - from their neighbors - - so that government can do what they themselves are too lazy to do. I can't think of anything more rude and selfish, but there you go....

The fact that their "method" of "doing things" does nothing more than enable their scumbag politicians to buy votes is irrelevant. (If they keep their eyes closed tight and shake their heads and chant "nah-nah-nah-nah", they won't notice it.)

So your theory (above) fits perfectly - - forcing others to do what they won't do themselves is what Democrats do, and that mindset expands naturally into "journalism".