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To: Achilles who wrote (46186)	7/20/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

while the left claims that it has a right-wing bias. Really? Who in the left, for example, claims that Time and Newsweek have a right-wing bias? There is a certain self-selectivity operating here. As a generalization, but accurate as a generalization, the people who tend to go into journalism school tend to be the more liberal members of the campus. Look at the student newspapers, for example. Virtually all very liberal. The Dartmouth Review is a notable exception, but look at how it is viewed by the mainstream media and by journalism schools. Not to mention the total lack of administrative support when the newspaper at Univ. of Pennsylvania (I forget its name) was picked up and destroyed by liberal students as it was being distributed, so that no students could read it. The more conservative students tend to be in business or law school rather than jouralism school. They would sneer at taking jobs with salaries that beginning journalists would accept. There are, of course, some exceptions: as a counterpoint to Time and Newsweek there is U.S. News and World Report; as a counterpoint to a slew of liberal magazines (all the way out to Mother Jones) there is the National Review. It is certainly a spectrum. But I do believe, based on what I believe is a more than adequate basis, that reporters and editors and the stories they select and write are more liberal than the public in general is.