29 June 2007

From the department of "not really news"

My friends over at Family Security Matters are all excited about a new MSNBC poll that they claim proves the media is hard left cabal. The poll analysed the political contributions of writers, editors and other staff members of the "mainstream media", but not publishers, owners or executives - more on this later, to political candidates, political organisations and political action committees. And guess what, the results prove to FSM that these journalists gave more to hard left wing organisations like the Democratic Party than they did to mainstream organisations like the Republican Party.

These results are nothing new. Analysis of the worker bees of journalism has always shown a minor tilt towards liberal or progressive thinking. Had the analysis extended to the publishers and executives, i.e. those who actually control the content and direction of the publication or broadcaster, it would have undoubtedly found that this sample leaned at least at much to the right as the other sample did to the left.

So the conclusions that I draw from these data is that the published and broadcast bent of the American main stream media will reflect the proclivities of those in charge and therefore will lean slightly or materially to the right.

Over to you FSM!

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