> Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda > Would you care to guess what proportion of the US media votes Democratic? > The odds that the Washington Post, New York Times, and so on will endorse > the Democratic candidate in any given election? Fairly low, let me assure > you. These are not neutral observers. Most of my _Democratic_ friends > agree with me on that. To assert otherwise is to pretty much define > yourself as a member of the very far left. > articles condemned all military spending, reflexively or otherwise. > > For "fairly low" obviously read "fairly high" which I somehow managed to > switch. God, I need to not write posts when I just got back from a bar. >
The usual way of the media is that there is a tendency for the journalists to be liberalistic (US, democrat; Aust/Britain, Labor) but for the proprietors to be conservative. When you think about who becomes a journalist, someone who questions assumptions by nature etc, that should not be too surprising. There is also, at least here, a tendency for highly educated people to swing towards Labor. Probably the same in the States, although the libertarians might swing things the other way a bit. You might also find, as I've been told by a number of practising journalists here in Australia, that many if not most journalists do not vote. The reason being that many journalists, certainly the better ones, do try not to favour one side over the other. Brett
