They are the 96% and that’s why news is so biased
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Journalism is in chaos. It is an industry where only a tiny percentage of people dare hold different political opinions and more than 60% of journalists think the news business is going in the "wrong direction." Don’t take my word for it. Take theirs.
More than 1,600 journalists responded to a survey from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and the results are damning. Only 3.4% of U.S. journalists claim to be Republicans, with another 36.4% saying they’re Democrats. That’s more than 10 times more Democrats than Republicans. Or at least the ones who will admit they are on the left.
More than half (51.7%) call themselves "independents" and another 8.5% "other." Journalists have been getting these survey questions for more than 50 years and they have grown savvier. Many carefully list themselves in those other categories to avoid being called biased. So, just keep that 3.4% number in mind. Out of all journalists.
Or let’s give the real number – 96.6% are not Republicans.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE MEDIA BIAS, LOOK AT HOW THE PRESS COVERED THIS CRAZY BIDEN HANDOUT
That’s how Russiagate and Russian collusion get rammed down the throats of the American public like the scandal really happened. (Hint: It didn’t.) That’s how they cover for a president who is barely coherent much of the time and lies