Republican lawmaker says journalists should face a registry to work in South Carolina

[Benton]

(01-21-2016, 02:27 AM)Vlad Wrote: 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.

This is why we need more trained journalists. Reading comprehension rates have gone to crap in this country.

Your post — while full of fear mongering for what you perceive as a biased media — has nothing to do with what was said in my post. Or the OP.

I should know better than to respond, but I'll point out all those numbers are self reported. As a journalist, I spend a lot of time with polls (you're welcome for that giggle). Over the last 20-25 years they've become increasingly unreliable. Why? Caller ID is the biggest reason. There's also the fact workers are busier now than they were 20-30 years ago and don't have time to talk to some pollster with a clipboard. There are also a few others beliefs in the industry why they're starting to fail, but those seem to be the big two.

So jumping up and down over self-reported numbers is like believing someone when they tell you how many sexual partners they've had or a drunk guy tells you how many beers he's had. It's completely unreliable.

Try the book below. Or at least the synopsis. Or — at the very least — don't believe everything you read on the internet.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0739164740?ie=UTF8&tag=washpost-style-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0739164740