Posted on 11/09/2015 6:18:02 AM PST by MosesKnows
A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidatesâ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.
The movement toward equality in all things exists in the political forums. Bias is the word applied to inequalities in the media. The media is the primary source of various reports of inequality and the attempts to make unequal things equal.
Inequalities of outcome exist because of inequalities of EFFORT. Thomas Sowell
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle
Republicans media bias claims boosted by scarcity of right-leaning journalists
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ABOLISH THE FCC and recover our rights to freedom of speech!!
You seem to have gotten the title wrong.
Actual title:
“Republicans media bias claims boosted by scarcity of right-leaning journalists”
You seem to have listed yourself as the author, rather than Kelly Riddell.
How do you suppose all that happened?
We must have PC Diversity in all things.
Conservatives and Republicans in general have slept for decades, ceding public education, academia, media & Hollywood, even the churches, to the Left and the naval gazers.
What other possible outcome would we expect as the result?
Here we sit. Indoctrination by curriculum and the many teachers union choices and demands have trumped our chances to un-do the damage, by decades. Republicans have not cared.
These imbalances and inequalities are on no ones agenda even today. Addressing institutional indoctrination is on not one of our candidates campaign agenda, nor from their supporters.
Jeb is the indicator that Republicans are helpful in shooting themselves in the foot for generations. Common Core is the public image of I-don’t-care Republicans who must approve of the FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION of our country. (Tag line works here.)
Leftist, as with everything they touch, have corrupted the institution of the free objective watch dog press. They targeted the incubation chambers where little baby journalist are hatched, colleges and universities.
I wonder how many journalism professors are registered repubs? My guess zero.
By creating more competition by not funding the existing media.
I laughed and told him the same had been said about blacks and women years ago - - prejudice against those groups used the exact same rationalizations.
All I can say is we need to keep pushing on this - for our sake and theirs. Publishers need to exert pressure - 'news' is a business - not a private club of like minded elites.
At some point these news companies need to think in terms of getting the 'Trump audience' for MORE than just the one or two appearances of Trump... We're out here - a large viable market - ready to buy the stuff advertisers want to sell... wanting a few people who represent our point of view.
Bill Cunningham explains it better than anyone, and I wish EVERY SINGLE GOP CANDIDATE would mention in debates, out loud and right to their faces:
“For Democrats and the media, every game is a home game.”
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