With the growth of Fox News and other conservative media outlets, conservative concern with media bias has waned in the last few years. Consumers, when given the choice, express a large preference for conservative news sources, while networks like MSNBC pander to a smaller and smaller slice of extremist liberal viewers. But with a Hillary Clinton candidacy upon us, people everywhere are starting to take notice. The media is still VERY biased.
A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates’ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.
As Republican candidates prepare for their fourth debate of the primary season Tuesday in Milwaukee, the people doing the questioning are increasingly in the spotlight, with their motives being questioned by the campaigns, voters and even by their fellow journalists.
And self-proclaimed Democratic journalists outnumber Republicans by 4-to-1, according to research by Lars Willnat and David Weaver, professors of journalism at Indiana University. They found 28 percent of journalists call themselves Democrats, while just 7 percent call themselves Republicans — though both numbers are down from the 1970s. Those identifying as independent have grown.
Among Washington correspondents, the ones who dominate national political coverage, it’s even more skewed, said Tim Groseclose, author of “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.” More than 90 percent of D.C. journalists vote Democratic, with an even higher number giving to Democrats or liberal-leaning political action committees, the author said.
You don’t have to look far to see the incredible vetting process that Ben Carson is going through right now, and how much that differs from the absolute pass the media gave Barack Obama. With the numbers so skewed, conservatives have little choice. They can complain, or they can accept reality- that the election will be like one big CNBC debate- and gird their loins.
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