From: Gene McAloon 

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:06:51 -0400, "Mark"  wrote:

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>"Gene McAloon"  wrote: I think
you are confusing
>editorial and/or columnist stuff with reporting.
>
>Nope.
>
>Coincidentally enough, I found this this morning:
>http://www.yale.edu/isps/seminars/american_pol/groseclose.pdf
>They research only hard news using citations chosen by the news
>organizations as they compare to those used by Congress to determine their
>weighting.

If that is a reference to the two conservative nitwit professors and their
extraordinarily flawed and puerile study, forget it. That research is so
laughable it doesn't' deserve comment.


>
>And of course, you recall ABCs political unit summing it up (confessing, if
>you will) nicely a few months back:
>http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote_Feb1004.html
>"Like every other institution, the Washington and political press corps
>operate with a good number of biases and predilections. They include, but
>are not limited to, a near-universal shared sense that liberal political
>positions on social issues like gun control, homosexuality, abortion, and
>religion are the default, while more conservative positions are
>"conservative positions.""

That is quite correct. As poll after poll over the years have shown, the
positions held by most of the media and most reporters is in fact the
default. The conservative positions on all those questions is out of step
with most of the public, let alone the media and reporters.
>
>Surely you didn't miss this overview:
>http://www.mediaresearch.org/SpecialReports/2004/report063004_p1.asp
>"Leading journalists may deny their bias, but every survey over the past 25
>years shows journalists do not think or vote like the American public.
>Reporters overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, their views on issues such as
>abortion and gay rights are well to the left of most Americans, and large
>majorities want big government even more involved in the economy. Here's all
>the evidence of their liberal views..."

It is hardly surprising that most reporters, working stiffs, vote
Democratic in larger percentage than is true of the general public. The
same could be said of most unions, teachers, university professors,blacks,
minorities in general, etc., etc. And of course the old argument must be
pointed out still again. Reporters don't determine what gets written in the
press. Editors make that determination and as members of management they
are overwhelmingly conservative.

That old, very old, argument you are using that reporters are more liberal
than most of public and that  means the press is more liberal than the
general public
is so hoary, so asinine, I am shocked every time I see it repeated. Talk
about outmoded dogma!. When will you far-right types ever get around to
joining the rest of the world?  You people are so far removed from reality,
you have taken on the characteristics of a cult.


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