Rasmussen poll: Reporters are trying to help Obama win

THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!!!!

 

Yeah, I've read it, and I'm sure a lot more people have read it than would have read it in the Times now that it's been published by Drudge.

He attacked Obama in there just like Obama attacked McCain in his piece, but he also laid out his reasons why he thought we shouldn't withdraw troops just yet and why the surge has been working. Even though Shipley said that his piece didn't have a timetable (as if his plan HAD to have a timetable), it did have a timetable because he said troops would be home by 2013.

 

nah, i laughed.

 

But that's mostly just because the number of whacko liberals (those on the lunatic fringe, those who drink the kool-aid) on this board outnumber the number of neo-conservatives by about 10 to 1 by my count.......though despite that staggering disparity on a message board of journalists "THERE IS NO BIAS IN THE MEDIA........"

 

Do you believe using ALL-CAPS somehow makes your argument more effective or authoritative?

Does my typing ZAGOSHE IS A DOUCHEBAG WHO IS ONLY HERE TO PISS OFF PEOPLE in ALL-CAPS make it more true?

 

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your pamphlet.

 

So you disagree that the decision-makers are Republicans? You disagree that the conservative media has expanded greatly in an era of American disenfranchisement with the Republican president?

 

No, ALL-CAPS are used in this case in lieu of the quote function because that's what liberals around here scream day after day after day........

Sort of like THAT'S DIFFERENT!!!!!

 

What is a liberal? Please explain the concept to me.

 

Um........(I know, I know -- THAT'S DIFFERENT!!!)

Four Times as Many Journalists Self-Define as Liberal than Conservative

By John Jalsevac

March 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A recent study by the Pew Research Center has revealed that journalists are far more likely to define themselves as liberal than the general population, and far less likely to define themselves as conservative.

The massive study was conducted late last year, and surveyed the views of over 500 journalists.

"As was the case in 2004," reads the commentary on the study by the Pew Research Center, "majorities of the national and local journalists surveyed describe themselves as political moderates; 53% of national journalists and 58% of local journalists say they are moderates. About a third of national journalists (32%), and 23% of local journalists, describe themselves as liberals. Relatively small minorities of national and local journalists call themselves conservatives (8% national, 14% local)."

Commentary by the popular Newsbusters website suggested that the statistics do not even fully describe the imbalance in the media, pointing out, "It's not much of a leap to presume many of the 53 percent who describe themselves as 'moderate' are really quite liberal."

The study also found that internet journalists in particular tend to be more liberal than other journalists. "Fewer than half (46%) call themselves moderates, while 39% are self described liberals and just 9% are conservatives."

The study compared these figures with the figures for the general population, saying: "Among the population as a whole, 36% call themselves conservatives - more than triple the percentage of national and internet journalists, and more than double the percentage of local journalists. About four-in-ten (39%) characterized their political views as moderate, while 19% are self-described liberals, based on surveys conducted in 2007 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press."

Amy Mitchell, deputy director of Pew Research Center, said that the findings are the same as they were when a similar study was conducted in 2004. The numbers also reflect the findings of other similar studies.

The disproportion in the beliefs of journalists has also reflected itself in public attitudes towards the press. "Among those who feel that their daily newspaper has become worse," says the study, "the number who blame bias, and particularly liberal bias, has grown from 19% in 1996 to 28% in 2006."

 

Oy.

 

Wow, if ever there was a misleading headline to a story, this is it.