In the last debate, Tex Cruz said something like, "Nobody watching this debate believes that any of the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary!"
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.
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“There’s something in the DNA of liberals that makes them want to go into jobs like the arts, journalism and academia more so than conservatives,” Mr. Groseclose said. “Even if you’re just trying to maximize profits by offering an alternative point of view, it’s hard to find conservative reporters. So it’s natural the media is more liberal.”
The bias factor has become front-page news after last month’s GOP presidential debate, which aired on CNBC, and which has drawn consistently bad reviews for how the moderators handled the questioning.
John Harwood, a CNBC and New York Times reporter who has written pieces on why Republicans are bad for the economy, asked front-runner Donald Trump if his run “was a comic book version of a presidential campaign.” Mr. Harwood later demanded that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, say whether he believed Mr. Trump had “the moral authority” to be president. Mr. Huckabee didn’t take the bait.
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It's the self-selection bias at work. Liberal art degrees attracts liberals, business degrees attract conservatives. It's not a conspiracy, just an unintended consequence.
Why this results in another uproar after decades of the claim being made over and over is liberals just use it as an excuse every time to get their panties all twisted into a bunch. Manufacturing Bullshit news is what they're especially good at.
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By coincidence, John Stossel's latest show was about "Elites", including a discussion of the fact that the vast majority of academics are liberals. He had a quote from some college president saying that it isn't prejudice: they just hire the smartest candidates, and liberals are smarter than conservatives.
