quote:Originally posted by JQ: I'd like to hear an example of the those 'darned liberals' in the media altering the facts for their own agenda. You guys talk alot about polls that show that the majority of journalists are liberals. What does that show? Sure, it supports your claim, but you need a LOT more to prove some sort of 'vast left-wing bias.'
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I think Goldberg's most valid point is that reporters tend to have more liberal views than the public on social issues. In one case Goldberg cites an eigteen year-old Los Angeles Times survey of three thousand journalists nationwide showing that they have more liberal views than the the general public on things like gun control (78 percent of journalists favored tougher control eitheen years ago, while only half the public did), prayer in public school (74 percent of the public said yes eighteen years ago; 75 percent of journalists said no), and the death penalty (eighteen years ago, 75 percent of the public supported it, versus only 47 percent of journalists) He fails however, to explain that editors and publishers --who have the final say over what goes out--tend to be conservative. According to a study made in this century byEditor and Publisher Magazine, more than twice as many newspapers endorsed Bush as endorsed Gore. Bush endorsing papers accounted for 58 percent of all national circulation.
From chapter 6 of Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"
