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Originally Posted by ubertuber
just look at where they come from and where they tend to work. I'm not at all convinced that this is mirrored by a distortion in their presentation of information.
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. Where do we come from? It's not like there's a journalist commune that we all live in before we get our big break
that said, yes, journalists tend to be more liberal than conservative, but a "flaming liberal" is a pretty rare find in a journalist. Most of us are much closer to the middle of the road. I for instance am pro choice, anti affirmative action. You can't really pigeonhole that into a liberal or conservative mindset.
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I do believe that news presentation goes to where the bosses think the money will be, which isn't a liberal or conservative issue.
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You're wrong there. It's a conservative issue. Hands down. The bosses of journalism are now large multi-conglomerate corporations. GE owns NBC. Disney owns ABC. The republican party is the one that is more friendly to business. Businesses get better tax breaks, better subsidies, and less regulation under the republicans than they do under the democrats. Large corporations aren't stupid, and therefore tend to support republicans over democrats.
Now why would a large corporation that supports the republicans want their most visible and vocal mouthpiece to be spewing liberal rhetoric? That's an asinine conclusion.
The media isn't too liberal or too conservative. It's too chicken. We need to hold people from all sides accountable when they screw up, and as a whole, we simply don't do that nearly enough.