Posted on 03/18/2008 4:24:21 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Conservatives remain scarce in the news media landscape.
Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as "conservative" in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and radio networks, daily newspapers, news wires and online sources.
Those who consider themselves "very conservative" amount to just 2 percent, according to a wide-ranging survey of 585 journalists and news executives released yesterday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
In contrast, 36 percent of the overall population generally consider themselves conservative.
There are more conservatives in broadcast than print — 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Among online journalists the figure was 8 percent.
The majority of nationally ranked journalists — 53 percent — described themselves as moderate, 24 percent were liberal and 8 percent "very liberal."
The findings have remained "basically flat" since 2004 when a similar survey was taken, said Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the media research group...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
When can we expect the government to intervene to right this injustice?
I’m unbelievably shocked!
Add this to academia and entertainment and it’s a wonder anybody could be consevative given the propoganda.
Soon, very soon. As soon as the Democrats have full control of Washington D.C., America will no longer need to endure the hate-filled, racist, mean-spirited commentary from conservatives. There will be change!
Too many neo-cons and jooz, the dems will enact
the fairness doctrine .
That's right. And on the day the fairness doctrine goes into effect, all war will end and perfect strangers will hold hands singing kumbaya. There will be no famine, no hardship, no crime.
I will always remember the night Ronald Reagan won his first term as President. All the talking heads were visibly shaken and were at a loss for words. One of them, I believe it was David Brinkley stated: “I do not know anyone who voted for Reagan!” It clearly did not occur to him that he had just confessed that he lived in a literal cocoon isolated from the man on the street!
The 4th estate has morphed into a 5th column.
The 53% who identify themselves as “moderates” are probably to the left of the average liberal.
On election night 1980, I was in the newsroom of a major paper with my father. when the results were final, a voice bellowed through the newsroom, “I can’t believe that S.O.B. won!”
I used to be a news junkie who would listen to "news radio" a lot. My daughter was stunned to learn that, since I changed during the Carter Administration. Because I read Reed Irvine's AIM ("Accuracy In Media") Report. But after I had read it for a year or two I let my subscription lapse because I was convinced. Further examples of "bias in the media" became a twice-told tale. The only question that interested me after that was why there is "bias in the media."I concluded first that it was no good to rail against "the media" in general, since although movies tend to be liberal, they are after all nonfiction - and there is simply no basis for complaint that someone who has a right to express their opinion does so too effectively. No, the issue is the perspective of journalism. After all, journalism claims to be nonfiction.
But even there,
Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin FranklinSo it is not adequate to defend journalism's claims to objectivity by attempting, even successfully, to prove that what journalism says is true. Even were that true, the issue would be open as to what journalism did not say. As, famously at present, journalism says nothing about Iraq now that things are going much better there.The bottom line is that journalism not only is not the whole of "the press" as the First Amendment used the term (after all, does it not cover book publishers too?) but the newspapers of the founding era were qualitatively different from today's "journalism." The fundamental difference is the telegraph and the Associated Press. Before the advent of the AP, journalism was local, and since printers didn't have an independent source of news not available to the public at large, newspapers were often weeklies.
The Associated Press put all newspapers into the business of selling a perishable thing - news that you haven't heard yet. And it simultaneously homogenized the newspaper business by claiming objectivity for itself, and essentially franchising its members to take on that same claim so long as they respected the objectivity claims of all members of the AP. So whereas Hamilton and Jefferson waged partisan battles with each other by sponsoring competing newspapers, and papers throughout the country had open connections to political parties, post-Civil War newspapers claim to be objective.
The superficiality and homogeneity of AP journalism is therefore compounded by its arrogance in claiming to be objective when in fact its perspective exaggerates the importance of journalism and journalists . . . and that runs directly counter to the conservative case that
"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - Theodore RooseveltThere is therefore no case to be made that journalism is objective - or that journalism deserves freedoms not available to you and me. And that implies that McCain-Feingold is unconstitutional root and branch.The Market for Conservative-Based News
We demand affirmative-action for conservatives in the drive-by media. /s
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