Posted on 09/19/2019 8:58:24 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Researchers from Arizona State University and Texas A&M University questioned 462 financial journalists around the country. They followed up with 18 additional interviews. The journalists worked for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and a number of other newspapers.
What they found surprised them. Even the supposedly hard-nosed financial reporters were overwhelmingly liberal . Of the 462 people surveyed, 17.63% called themselves "very liberal," while 40.84% described themselves as "somewhat liberal."
When you add it up, 58.47% admit to being left of center. Along with that, another 37.12% claim to be "moderate."
What about the mythic "conservative" financial journalist? In fact, a mere 0.46% of financial journalists called themselves "very conservative," while just 3.94% said they were "somewhat conservative." That's a whopping 4.4% of the total that lean right-of-center.
That's a ratio of 13 "liberals" for every one "conservative." Whatever happened to ideological diversity? Please remember this as you watch the business news or read a financial story in the paper.
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A long-term study of reporters' leanings and attitudes, "The American Journalist in the Digital Age," shows that the drift toward liberalism has been going on for years within journalism. In 1971, Republicans made up 25.7% of all journalists. Democrats were 35.5%, and independents were 32.5%. Some 6.3% of responses were "other."
By 2014, the year of the last survey, the share of journalists identifying as Republican had shrunk to 7.1%. Democrats today outnumber Republicans today by four to one.
Meanwhile, the share of journalists calling themselves "independent" has surged to 50.2%.
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Repeated surveys show that independents are usually left-of-center on social issues, but centrist on fiscal issues and many issue of governance. So you should really characterize them as "moderate left."
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Boy. These here newspaper fellers are some smart hombres sure as hogs love mud, yes siree. Welcome to what we conservatives have known for year you morons.
Trouble is...NON of those socio-marxist leftists would know what a true journalist was if it bit them in the rear.
NONE of them are journalists at all!
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Trouble is...NON of those socio-marxist leftists would know what a true journalist was if it bit them in the rear.
NONE of them are journalists at all!
OVERTURN THE PROSECUTION OF GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-throw-out-general-michael-flynns-prose
Spread this petition to everyone you know. We need all hands on deck helping General Michael Flynn and putting James Comey away for good.
They are propagandists, not journalists.
The Washington Times is about the only real newspaper left.
The headline is incorrect in two ways. There’s no leaning left about it. There’s hardcore socialism.
And the word journalism does not belong in that headline. These people are not journalists. They’re really not even trying to fake it anymore. They have basically admitted that they see it as their duty to print and say anything that will harm conservatism.
Getting a job in media is probably very political, requiring significant connections. That said, those who are promoted into the ‘profession’ are likely to be those who are most palatable to those already in the ‘profession’. Thus, liberalism begets more liberalism.
The inevitable result of the deliberate leftist takeover of all education. This was always the plan.
“A Rasmussen Reports survey in late October found that 45% of all likely voters in the midterm elections believed “that when most reporters write about a congressional race, they are trying to help the Democratic candidate.”
Can’t figure out whether I should be glad that 45% is so much higher than it used to be, or worried that it’s still so low.
Except for TALK FREAKIN RADIO !!!!! 100% conservative
Rush. Hannity levin savage prager. The list goes on !
Liberals ? Zero. Nada. Zilch
I think that you have forgotten NPR. NPR has a very large audience. It is the liberal talk-radio network, funded by your tax dollars.
The “media” is largely Comcast, Disney, and now ATT
And we’re supposed to be surprised about the Leftwing agenda???
All the tools blindly subscribing to these malicious corps get what they deserve. Just sucks that they’re dragging the rest of us down with them.
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