More "arrogance" from the right directed at the wrong:
Add Roper to "arrogant":
Media liberalism shows itself in the voting records of the media. A Roper Center survey found that a mere 2 percent of all major-media bureau chiefs and political reporters based in Washington described themselves as conservative; moreover, 89 percent voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, compared to just 7 percent for George Bush. Compare that to the 43/38 percent split among the overall American public.
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Looks like Michael Barone predicted the CNN dilemma of Liberal news, fewer views:
Michael Barone, writing in The American Enterprise stated:
Mainline journalism is by no means reliably pro-Democratic, as
Clinton White House staffers will attest, but it is reliably
anti-Republican. The Center for Media and Public Affairs
documented that in the fall 1994 campaigns the three major
networks gave Newt Gingrich 100 percent negative coverage. If
journalism's reputation for liberalism, combined with the
industry's drive for "multicultural" hiring, keeps driving away
conservatives and attracting liberals, there will soon be
problems. Problems with the quality and accuracy of news coverage,
and problems with audience rebellion. I will not be surprised if in
perhaps a dozen years the owners of our mass media may finally
have to take on the newsroom cultures to prevent the destruction of
otherwise exceedingly valuable financial assets. That would mean
installing tough, objective-minded editors. . . . And it would mean
taking affirmative actions to hire Republicans, conservative Christians, and others now vastly under-represented in newsrooms.
The American Enterprise (March/April 1996): 30.
Barone writes the definitive and exhaustive Almanac of American Politics
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