Conservatives still under represented in the media

Jennifer Harper:

Conservatives remain scarce in the news media landscape.

Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as "conservative" in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and radio networks, daily newspapers, news wires and online sources.

Those who consider themselves "very conservative" amount to just 2 percent, according to a wide-ranging survey of 585 journalists and news executives released yesterday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

In contrast, 36 percent of the overall population generally consider themselves conservative.

There are more conservatives in broadcast than print — 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Among online journalists the figure was 8 percent.

The majority of nationally ranked journalists — 53 percent — described themselves as moderate, 24 percent were liberal and 8 percent "very liberal."

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When you consider that most moderates are liberals too embarrassed to admit it, you can see how out of skewed the media really is.

What is really bad is how liberal media consumers really resent the few conservative media outlets. Their hatred for Fox News is apparent. They don't just disagree with it they don't want conservatives to be able to watch it either.

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