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To: JBTFD who wrote (101382)	6/29/2007 8:02:21 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

There was another that had surveyed 2700. Both of the large studies found 55-61% liberals. But that doesn't imply there was a 60/40 or 55/45 split. The number of conservatives was very small in both studies - 15% and 17%. Furthermore, the largest study found that the survey respondents took liberal positions on social and defense issues by 78-84%. -- In 1996, the American Society of Newspaper Editors surveyed more than 1,000 reporters at newspapers across the country. A wide majority (61%) identified themselves as "Democrat or liberal" or leaning in that direction, while barely one in six (15%) used "Republican or conservative" to describe their views. That closely matched a 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%). When liberals outnumber conservatives 4 to 1 and liberal opinions are held by around 80% that's not a slight bias.