New in PJ Media:
The number of American journalists who say they’re Republican has, just like journalism itself, hit new lows. Now only 3.4% of journalists identify as members of the Grand Old Party, and longtime observers of the establishment media in this country will likely be surprised that the percentage is that high.
Fox News reported Saturday that the study, which Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications conducted based on a survey of 1,600 journalists, found that 36.4% said that they were Democrats. Fifty-one percent said that they were independents, which is in keeping with the impartiality and evenhandedness that journalists are supposed to bring to their work. It would have been illuminating, however, if the survey had dug deeper and asked the journalists questions about where they stood on various issues: the prosecution of Trump, the open border, abortion, and more. Then it would have been clear that the overwhelming majority of those “independents” are, like their counterparts who said they were Democrats, farther to the left than Stalin or Mao.
The study did, however, demonstrate a general move to the left among journalists that has been going on for decades now. “The first-of-its-kind study,” Fox noted, “which made its debut in 1971, has witnessed a dramatic shift in the percentages of Republican and Democratic journalists over the years.” Back in 1971, the first study “revealed that 35.5% of respondents said they were Democrats, 25.7% said they were Republicans and 32.5% said they were Independents.”
Those numbers were much less lopsided than today’s breakdown, but even then, it was tough for Republicans, and patriots in general, to get fair treatment in the media. As far back as 1962, Richard Nixon was complaining about the biased press coverage of his campaign for governor of California when he said, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” In 1971, journalist Edith Efron published a book entitled “The News Twisters,” demonstrating that there had been serious media bias in its coverage of the 1968 presidential election. And the propaganda machine of the establishment media was just in its infancy then.
Now, decades later, no one bats an eye when Democratic Party operatives such as Jen Psaki, George Stephanopoulos, Donna Brazile, and a host of others go into the “news” business. It is taken for granted that every reporter for every major publication, every one, is a hard-left ideologue. And now the number of journalists who dare to admit that they’re Republicans has steadily gone down. In 1982, it fell to 18.8%. By 2013, it was 7%.
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Rick says
The left-right or Dem-GOP split seems obvious to anyone watching the various ‘news’ shows which are really just opinionated talking heads.
James Lincoln says
The reaction to all of this has been the establishment of conservative general news websites, such as:
Frank Speech
https://frankspeech.com/
Redstate
https://redstate.com/
The Gateway Pundit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
Newsmax
https://www.newsmax.com/
OAN
https://www.oann.com/category/newsroom/
RSBN
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/category/news/
Real America’s Voice
https://americasvoice.news/news/
Daily Caller
https://dailycaller.com
Daily Signal
https://dailysignal.com
WND
https://wnd.com
American Thinker
https://americanthinker.com
Townhall
https://townhall.com
Gatestone Institute
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/
tgusa says
The left have perverted everything and the media are their allies. There is no limit to what they will do. Nothing is below them. Read this article from a site that pre-dates many of the others you have listed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4207142/posts
Founded in September 1996 as a sole proprietorship by Founder, Chairman and President James C. “Jim” Robinson of Fresno, California, Free Republic opened to the general public in February 1997.
No corporate or otherwise backing. Just one guy in Fresno.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the link, tgusa.
tgusa says
Any time James. American Thinker (that you noted) is another of my favs if you are looking for interesting well written content and a far from mindless comment section.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
James
A good place to find some, if not all of this is the KlowdTV app. Initially, it just had OANN and Newsmax, but now it has The First (which has Bill O’Reilly and Dana Loesch), Salem News Network (which has Prager, Hewitt, Gallagher, Wilkow, Tatum…), Infowars (of Alex Jones), and a bunch of other non political channels. One can just go to
https://www.klowdtv.com
and open an account there. If one chooses the free option, there may be limits to what one might watch in some of the options eg you wouldn’t get Newsmax+ in that scenario, since that’s now the one that has Eric Bolling, Rob Schmitt, Greta Van Sustern, et al. Otoh, Ed Henry is there on the free Newsmax channel
So if one picks Klowdtv, one gets to “cut the cord” i.e. no longer pay the likes of Comcast, Cox, AT&T, et al for channels like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, PBS, et al even if one doesn’t watch those. That would be a good way to even start starving the likes of the hags from The View, Rachel Maddow & so on. If one is using a computer, just go to the link above. If one is using either a tablet, or one of those streaming TVs, one can use AppleTV (Gen 4 or newer), Roku, Chromecast, & Amazon Fire TV
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
This is actually the first time that I’ve heard of Klowdtv.
I just checked it out and it looks and works fine.
Thanks!
nicholas tesdorf says
The standard of Journalism around the World has followed the same trend downward as the move of Jornalism to the Left.