Do Republicans, most of whom don't read, really have a point when they accuse the press of being liberal?

Question

A recent study by the Institute of American Literacy determined that liberals and democrats read three and one-half times as much serious print media as republicans and conservatives. If true, on what basis do they accuse the press of being biased.

Answer 1

""If true, on what basis do they accuse the press of being biased""

Pew Research center poll of media people themselves about 65% classify themselves as Liberals.
Furthermore polls among media people also reveal that their ideology affects how they do their job.

actually looked it up heres and excerpt and its actually greater numbers than that.

.. survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found. Five times more national outlet journalists identify themselves as liberal, 34 percent, than conservative, a mere 7 percent. The poll also discovered that while the reporters, editors, producers and executives have a great deal of trouble naming a “liberal” news outlet, they had no problem seeing a “conservative” outlet, with an incredible 69 percent readily naming the Fox News Channel.

Answer 2

Not necessarily saying you're full of crap, but a Google search of "Institute of American Literacy" comes up with absolutely nothing in terms of there being an institute with such a name. And even if there is such a place, and they did commission such a study, here's the deal. If someone sets out to prove a premise, and I guess the premise here would be that conservatives, since they primarily live in less urban, more southern areas of our nation, aren't as educated or literate as liberals are, the study they commission will prove said premise. No one commissions a study if they don't have idea what they want to prove and if they aren't pretty sure they can cook the books to prove it. I'm not even a conservative, but based on the conservatives I know, I'd say that any assertion that liberals read three and a half times the print media conservatives do is ridiculous. If this were true, columnists like William Buckley, Cal Thomas, and Charles Krauthammer (to name a few) wouldn't have the readership they enjoy.

Answer 3

Maybe. I was a Public Affairs Officer in the Army for a while. I can tell you that national media is biased and has an agenda. I don't think it necessarily has to do with a political agenda, however. In my opinion they were more in love with sensationalism. They went ga-ga over the Clinton/Lewinski scandal, and that definitely didn't benefit the left. I dealt with NBC news. A time I'll never forget. And I'll never watch the nightly news with the same perspective I had before . . .

Answer 4

Conservatives have tried using the press as a whipping boy for ages and ages, especially when the press reveals Conservatives' dirty little secrets. In actual fact, based on several surveys of deans of schools of journalism around the United States, the opposite may well be true - most newspapers tend to lean to the right!

Answer 5

Liberals depend on lies and deception. They call liars like Dan Rather journalists and insult anyone on Fox just because Fox doesn't toe the democrap hate-Bush line.
It's funny how a search on "Institute of American Literacy" produces nothing.

Answer 6

That's because the "serious print media" in the survey constitutes liberally biased media. So, in other words, according to them if you don't read liberal publications you are illiterate.

Answer 7

I still read newsprint, but I also live in the deep south. A liberal paper in my area would go bankrupt.

Answer 8

There you go generalizing and propagating misinformation. Perhaps if the majority of "news" wasn't biased misinformation, we republicans would read more of it. As it is, I would rather gain my information from reliable and verifiable, honest information sources, not from propaganda websites as so many of the liberals and democrats do.

What good is reading if the quality of the literature is not up to discriminating standards?

Answer 9

Republicans read just fine...we simply no longer rely on media outlets and journalists to be our main source of information...we're smart enough to research for ourselves and come to our own conclusions.

Answer 10

Since you are the folks that keep the newsprint alive, don't just assume that news and information is not being gathered, just because it is not your method. I accuse the press of being biased because they are. Again, just because you do not agree with me, it does not make it untrue.