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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (101090)	6/24/2007 4:46:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

MSNBC's survey of political contributions - pull out the two who gave to both parties and look only at journalists who gave to only one party: 125/141 = 88.7%. Slate's survery of its own staff: 85% voted Dem or Green. Lichter's survey of the media elite found 81% voted for McGovern in 1972, the year of the Nixon landslide. "U.S. News & World Report’s Kenneth Walsh polled his fellow White House reporters about their votes in the five presidential elections from 1976 to 1992": 86% Dem; 12% Rep. "Bill Clinton was the overwhelming choice of nearly 90% of Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents surveyed by the Freedom Forum" "the American Society of Newspaper Editors surveyed more than 1,000 reporters": (61%) identified themselves as "Democrat or liberal" or leaning in that direction, while barely one in six (15%) used "Republican or conservative" "1985 Los Angeles Times survey of 2,700 journalists, which found three times as many self-identified liberals as conservatives (55% to 17%) in U.S. newsrooms". "The 1985 L. A. Times survey also showed that most reporters hold doctrinaire liberal views on most major political, social and economic issues. Huge majorities said they were for legalized abortion (82%), against increased defense spending (80%), in favor of more gun control (78%), and, during those tense days of the Cold War, favored a so-called "nuclear freeze" which would ban all future nuclear missile deployments (84%)." There you go - the MSM staff is mostly liberal and Democratic - you can quibble about the percentages - 80%+, 85%, 90% - whichever. My overall point is made. And you've shown you have nothing but inconsequential quibbling about what exact percentage applies to fall back on. You think if you can say, hey because EVERY survey doesn't come back exactly 90% liberal, it means the MSM is objective and balanced?