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Sure, Fox new may be the highest rated cable channel. But it's pretty much the only mainstream conservative cable network. Also, categorizing the Wall Street Jo
by manfredo 7y ago
Sure, Fox new may be the highest rated cable channel. But it's pretty much the only mainstream conservative cable network. Also, categorizing the Wall Street Journal as conservative is rather dubious. They lean liberal on most social issues, people mostly just assume they're conservative because they have a centrist understanding of market principles (e.g. that rent control won't lower the cost of housing in the long run).
The percentage of journalists that identify as Republicans is in the single digits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...
- rayiner 7y agoAlso, the 100 largest newspapers overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton, even though Trump carried 46% of the popular vote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_th.... > Among the United States' 100 largest newspapers by paid circulation, 57 endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, while only two, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union, endorsed Trump. Four (the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Charleston (South Carolina) Post and Courier) endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, while three other newspapers (USA Today, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) specifically discouraged their readers from voting for Trump. To put that into perspective: even though reporters are 83% white—they are 1/5 as likely as whites in general to identify as republican. Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and LGBT people are all twice as likely or more to identify as republican than journalists.