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To: tejek who wrote (158016)	1/14/2003 1:47:34 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580250

Ted, <Well, lets review the facts as we know them. Reagan started out as a Dem. He was an actor......which tends to be profession inhabited more by liberals. He was governor of CA........a liberal state.> Ever since Reagan became a Republican in 1962, his actions have been anything BUT centrist: pbs.org Your characterization of Reagan is curious at best. Perhaps the guy was too good to be a conservative in your mind? ;-) Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (158016)	1/14/2003 7:43:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580250

Well, lets review the facts as we know them. Reagan started out as a Dem. He was an actor......which tends to be profession inhabited more by liberals. He was governor of CA........a liberal state. All of this was well before he became presidents. In any case there are conservative actors and CA used to be less liberal. Name one major issue where Bush Sr. was well to the right of Reagan? He may well be........but I don't think that's how they started out. Maybe not when they where young but when you compare the begining of their presidencies, the middle, and the end Reagan was noticibly more conservative at each point. Links please " I posted them here before, and D Ray posted a different one recently." D. Ray posted just for Washington journalists. Well I have posted them (or probably others along the same line) before but ok - "Newspaper staffs have become even less conservative over the past eight years, a poll for the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) found. Last fall, ASNE polled 1,037 journalists at 61 papers of all sizes. Released in April, The Newspaper Journalists of the 90s report discovered: -- "In 1996 only 15 percent of the newsroom labeled itself conservative/Republican or leaning in that direction, down from 22 percent in 1988" when the ASNE last conducted a comprehensive survey. Those identifying themselves as independent jumped from 17 to 24 percent while the percent calling themselves "liberal/Democrat" or "lean" that way held steady, down one point to 61 percent. -- The bigger the paper, the more liberal the staff: "On papers of at least 50,000 circulation, 65 percent of the staffs are liberal/Democrat or lean that way. The split at papers of less than 50,000 is less pronounced: still predominantly liberal, but 51-23 percent." " secure.mediaresearch.org libertyteeth.org "Between 1979 and 1980 S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman interviewed 240 journalists employed by the country’s leading media outlets. Less than 20 per cent had ever voted Republican and 56 per cent honestly believed that America exploited the Third World and was the cause of its poverty. Since then things have only gotten worse. In April 1998 the Freedom Forum released a nationwide survey conducted by the Roper Organization which showed that 89 per cent of all journalists voted for Clinton and that only 4 per cent are Republicans. Not only that, 96 per cent of these journalists thought it was their role to ‘educate’ the public rather than simply report the news." newaus.com.au proliberty.com asne.org suite101.com gargaro.com opinioneditorials.com I don't understand why it has to be a PM but I will do it Never mind. I posted a 2nd response today with the links you asked for. Tim