Centerfield

This entry about the American Political Science Association is relevant:

In 1984, the APSA took a survey of its members’ voting preferences in the upcoming election, and over 90 percent responded that they intended to vote for Walter Mondale. Most of the other 10 percent were voting for independent candidates further to the left of Mondale; only about two percent intended to vote for Reagan. This result makes academic political scientists even further to the left than the news media, which may be one reason why the APSA has not taken a presidential preference poll since 1984.

http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/cap/2001/01-09-06.html

I"ve determined that the reason more journalists in Washington consider themselves to the left is because they've seen the failings of the right...they've been reporting on it and they know what it is.

Yeah....I have a target on my back. :)

We'll use Nerf arrows.

It's undeniable based on such polls that there are more lefty journalists than righty journalists. Although as I've said before, the media's bias is MUCH more powerful in terms of bias for ratings/entertainment value than for partisan slant. Political slant of any type will always take a wayback seat to "what bleeds leads." And that's only the most simple graphic description of what's really much more pervasive as "lead with whatever is controversial, visceral, gets people all fired up, scares them, excites them, etc. " When media behavior is viewed through THIS primary lens, you find that it accounts for a LOT of the coverage viewed as "liberal bias" by righty marketers.

The thing that gets me about the right's complaining (sometimes very exaggerated, too) about the preponderance of liberals in journalism is that they just use it as something to complain aboiut, they never explain what should be done about it outside of "buy our brand instead." No real prescriptions there.

IMO, the thing is that something about journalism attracts critics, social reformers, would-be justice makers, etc, who lean towards the educated liberal part of the political spectrum. Just as Wall Street attracts educated conservatives. Both are situations that are the result of social free markets which created imperfect conditions(depending on your PoV). But conservatives don't want to go down that road, because they don't like the idea that an imperfect market could possibly stand to be altered by outside intervention. So their approach is to "fix" the imperfect journalism market by marketing their brand.

And I have no problem with them marketing their brand, that's Ok with me. Bu when it gets to the "look how biased and liberal the media are," my reaction is "cry me a river."

Liberals in media think they know it all and are as much of ideologues as those toward the right. Liberals are just as much control freaks and as the right-wingers. The problem is they don't know that.

And, no to the conservatives and business comparison. In fact,there's one particular very liberal grouping who controls the investment corporations,investment banking corporations, media, movie, newspaper, magazine corporations for big buckos and control the advertising and marketing garbage put out there.

Oh Alex, please tell us more about this liberal shadow organization that " controls the investment corporations, investment banking corporations, media, movie, newspaper, magazine corporations for big buckos and control the advertising and marketing garbage put out there."

I'm dying to see you document this. No luck with the donut, eh?