[dude1394]

I never read that poll? Can you find that for me, dude?

Can you find actual examples of those texts?

You caught me. *sheep*. It's only 61% who are self-identified as "Democrat or Liberal" versus 15% Republican or leaning republican, in 1996. Now it's only 25% Liberal, 59% moderate and 6% conservative. I guess you could read this as the media is becoming MORE balanced, but unfortunately I don't buy it.

From the late Michael Kelly

As to the first, there is no question that journalists as a group are much more liberal than conservative and much more so than the general public. The independent media analyst S. Robert Lichter looked at 10 major surveys on the political beliefs and voting patterns of mainstream print and broadcast journalists from 1962 to 1996. As Lichter writes, ``the pattern of results is compelling.'' The percentage of journalists who were classified as ``liberals'' were, survey to survey: 57, 53, 59, 42, 54, 50, 32, 55, 22 and 61. The percentage classified as ``conservative,'' survey by survey: 28, 17, 18, 19, 17, 21, 12, 17, 5 and 9. Voting patterns and findings on specific issues (for instance, regarding abortion, gun control or taxes) have consistently mirrored these general attitudes.
Surveys since have shown no overall change in this dynamic. A 1996 survey of 1,037 reporters at 61 newspapers found 61 percent self-identified as ``Democrat or liberal`` or ``lean to Democrat or liberal," vs. only 15 percent Republican or leaning Republican. A 2001 survey of 301 ``media professionals'' by Princeton Survey Research Associates found 25 percent self-identified as ``liberal,'' 59 percent as ``moderate," and only 6 percent as ``conservative.''

The point he is trying to make here is that "liberal" has now become "moderate" in the eyes of the media. However only 6% are now "conservative".

Mike Kelly