01-21-2016, 02:27 AM
(01-20-2016, 10:03 PM)Benton Wrote: except... Reporters aren't lethal weapons. They don't have some kind of special sway. In the end, journalists are only exercising a person's first amendment rights. That's it. Anything a report does someone off the street can do, as far as going into a public meeting or public building and requesting public documents.
They have a lot of special sway.
A 2010 report from the Media Research Center revealed the following:
A poll of journalists by the American Society of Newspaper editors found that self-identified liberals outnumbered conservatives in newsrooms 61 percent to 15 percent.
More than four-fifths of surveyed journalists said they voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in every election between 1964 and 1976.
In 1992, 88 percent of surveyed D.C. reporters said they voted for Bill Clinton for president. In 2004, the same group said it supported Democrat John Kerry over
President George W. Bush by a 12-to-1 margin.
In 2009, a whopping 96 percent of the staff working for the online Slate magazine said they supported Barack Obama for president.
And get this – in the American Society of Newspaper Editors poll, 71 percent of editors admitted that reporters’ opinions “sometimes” or “often” influence their coverage.
Journalists are cheerleaders for the democrat party, and they seem these days to report their opinions, not news.
The tone is also different when reporting a Republican charged of wrongdoing then it is that of a Dem. A very accusatory style of reporting when its a Republican, but they put their kid gloves on when its a Democrat.
It recall when Sarah Palin said that "Paul Revere warned the British" this "news" wouldn't go away, but when some Democrat from Delaware said he wished Sarah Palin was on the plane that crashed in Alaska killing all aboard, it was barely touched upon.
And the censorship. Most recent when the latest news of Hillaries email scandal was swept under the rug in favor of a story waaaaaay more newsworthy...Palins endorsement of Trump.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2016/01/19/networks-censor-massive-hillary-e-mail-bombshell-spend-over-10
She is the democrat candidate for president and must be protected.
