7% of journalists are Republican

[Benton]

Couple three things.

1- This is about book sales. Which sounds more likely to sell books — demonizing journalists as mostly liberal followers who can't help themselves and skew the public, or the vanilla fact of life that most journalists are as varied as most people in any occupation and contain a likewise amount of conservatives?

2- If they were an overwhelming majority of one party, why the assumption they can't do their job of reporting independently? I don't get that mental stumble in people. It's the same as saying liberal cops only arrest conservatives, conservative doctors only really try to save GOPers, or Green Party pilots are less likely to fly planes if Republicans and Democrats are on board.

3- What really matters (and going off point 2) is from your link:

Quote:In his study Mr. Groseclose measured the mainstream press on a 0-to-100 point scale, with 100 being the most liberal, like a speech from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and 50 being centrist. The media tended to come in at 60 — still not neutral, but not so slanted as some conservatives claim.

Which if I had to guess as to the reason, it's because we're coming out of a recent time were more liberal events were taking place. In other words, the media appeared to be more liberal because more liberal activity was going on.