--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What fraction of the owners vote Democratic? Who is in charge, the workers > or the owners? You can indeed find papers, like the Post, privately owned > by wealthy Democrats. But, on the whole, the interest of the papers are the > interests of its owners, who tend to be Republican. If you would do a > weighed average by circulation, of the ownership of the media, I cannot > imagine that it would be leftist.
I'm coming late to this discussion, but here goes. Assuming that owners indeed tend to be Republican, does this neccesarily translate into news coverage favoring Republicans? The journalists and editors who actually produce the news copy tend to be liberal, and I don't see what the mechanism is by which owners can influence their reporters. Owners do care about making money, and can control the resources that go to different parts of a paper, but there's no reason why that should be inherently liberal or conservative. Finally, we can argue all we want about ownership vs. reporters, but the bottom line is the actual output in the newspapers. On this subject, I highly recommend a book that just came out, _Coloring the News_ by William McGowan; it is far superior to the overrated _Bias_. Ronnie N. Carpio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
