Why are most of the "journalists" on national news networks liberals?

Question

Save the snide remarks about conservatives. I'm not one. It just seems as though it's getting harder and harder to get unbiased news.

Answer 1

You ask a biased blanket Q because there are news networks and journalists known to overtly support non-liberal ideologies as they report and discuss the news. (eg Brit Hume, Bill Krystol, Bill Safire, William Buckley, George Will, etc)

Your comment about it getting harder to get the complete news story from the relevant viewpoints, often in opposition to each other, is right on. It is getting more difficult to find balanced reporting in the establishment media. I believe news has become less informative and less trustworthy because the free press has been gutted to become a tool of the Government (No matter which party is in power) and a pawn of the Megacorporations whose drive for profits and riches has bought for them the control of the political process and the party in government. Have you noticed that the news and the news analyses you do get, there is little intellectual substance and that it often sportzified into nonsense as contests between personalities rather than ideas and values? That's turning the news into a "rollerball game".(See movie with James Caan)

The news often seems to be nothing more than a paraphrased restatement of a press release. There is very little investigative journalism today because the people hired as journalists aren't hired by the news organizations, conveniently owned by the media giants, for their brains,their knowledge,and certainly not any more for their passion to investigate the rich and powerful economic and political elites.

I feel that your Q serves no worthwile purpose since it buys into the divisive shibbolith promoted by conservatives that the liberals are in charge of the news we get. The facts is, "we have idiots in charge" on all news fronts. That is the real norm with a recent spin or bend toward the right because of 9/11 and the fear of more terrorism.

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Answer 2

If you think that "most journalists on national news" are liberals, then you are a conservative. All journalists in this country go overboard going easy on rightists. That they still don't satisfy conservatives is indicative of just how rightist conservatives are.

What's the unbiased news about an apartment fire? "Liberals say it is a conflagration, but conservatives point out that the flames are only 20 feet high, and therefore falls short of federal regulations regarding conflagrations."

If a person is a conservative, and robs a bank, and the media report that, does that make them "liberals?" Should they say rather that the guy initiated an unauthorized withdrawal?

My point is, that sometimes, conservatives actions look bad in the unvarnished, unspun light of plain old journalism: it is not the media's function to make conservatives or liberals or mainstreamers look good.

Damn, and here I thought Nixon was dead.

Answer 3

I agree. The first thing I learned about journalism in high school was that reporters offered the news in an unbiased manner - allowing the public to make the opinions. Journalism has fallen long and far. I think they are scrambling over each other for ratings, and I think that they choose liberal attitudes, or the networks hire liberal reporters and anchorpeople, not because the majority of the nation is liberal (I am not so sure about that) but perhaps because the majority of *watchers* are liberal. So they try to slant the news to provide better 'entertainment' (rather than NEWS) to their audience, for ratings.

Answer 4

Journalists are more informed than most people...that's why. They spend their whole day with the news instead of hearing the sound bites the way we do. As for bias, perhaps it is just cognitive dissonance...that is, when you hear something contrary to what you believe in, you ascribe it to bias...and that your belief must still be correct. What's the problem if they happened to be right?

Answer 5

I'm begining to think you Americans think everyone is either a militant liberal, or a militant conservative. Do you even know what the terms stand for any more?

Answer 6

Because they work for liberal networks. Watch Fox news.

Answer 7

I don't know. . . why are most of the national networks owned by conservatives?

Answer 8

it particularly is slightly slanted that way as a backlash to compete with FOX's rampant (and frankly) conservative time table. CNN is a international information community that serves the international, so as that they are held to an more desirable accepted via the international and different international locations. they truthfully have a miles better international correspondence to grant them a broader scope of matters and on matters. additionally the media (quite often alongside with CNN) as an entire is considered as greater liberal at the instant with the election and presidency of Barack Obama. they are considered and accused as pandering to Obama and taking it trouble-free on him. He, in assessment to the previous administration, has a communique with the media and engages them. So, certainly, they like him. They ask questions for a tale and he cooperates with considerate solutions. The media grew to become into considered as serious of the Bush administration (different than for Fox) as a results of fact he would not answer questions at as quickly as, intelligently or perhaps in any respect. i might say a clever individual might pattern all 3 and make their judgments. Getting it at as quickly as from the source like CSPAN is a good thank you to pass. All information companies are going to place a bias on it, quite often not as blatant as Fox (who deliver out on a regular basis emails on the subject of instructions to a thank you to cover specific memories(a million)). you apart from mght might study in another country besides to confirm how different international locations cover memories on the subject of the U. S.. i in my opinion fairly think of The Economist (a uk mag) has great editorial products which could tutor you the undertaking and conceivable effects without heavy surpassed bias that maximum of our US information looks to have. study some articles and you will sense smarter than maximum Fox and CNN anchors... and truthfully smarter than that infant on your type.

Answer 9

ha... its the other way around...ever catch fox news?

and if it seems there is a shift in the way news is presented, its probably because this country is starting to wake up and realize how ridiculous the leaders are. its about time.

Answer 10

Because the more education a person gets, the more liberal they become.

Answer 11

That's funny, I thought they were all conservatives. Guess we interprete their spiel differently.