Stopping liberal bias in media?

Question

I'm curious as to why all these people screaming liberal bias in media haven't gone into journalism and fixed it for themselves? After all it is equal opportunity in America, isn't it? There are plenty of fantastic journalism schools, many of them state schools. All it takes is a bit of hard work and education to get into journalism. Why aren't all these conservatives who complain migrating toward these careers to change it?

Antiliber: Isn't that how people change things according to common myth about getting ahead? You start out at the bottom and work your way to the top?

Edit: My undergraduate minor was in Communications at the best University for Communications in the nation, politics never came up.

Answer 1

Because most Conservatives want to do something productive with their lives.

Answer 2

I am by no means a conservative, and I listen to NPR all the time, but there is a clear liberal bias in most of our popular media (Fox News being an obvious exception). IMHO there should be no persistent bias in good journalism. However, why would you expect that the only way to fix this is for people who complain to enter the field? For example, we complain about ineffective border control all the time (rightly so) but you don;t expect us all to become border patrol do you? I don;t want the media to have a conservative bias either, BTW.

Answer 3

That's well enough but the problem isn't the reporters but the editors and the owners of the media in question. A reporter can report the events just as they happen but the editor can and will change the reporter's story to fit the need of the liberal mentality and there's nothing the reporter can do about it. There are plenty of conservative reporters but their editors won't take their stories just as they are and heaven forbid a conservative ever becoming an editor.

Answer 4

A good question worthy of a good answer.

You appear to assume that someone's motive in choosing a career is to change society. But that motive is what distinguishes liberals from the rest of us - see, the rest of us aren't in it to change society - we just want society to allow us to control our own lives and keep more of our money. Changing society isn't our motivation for anything, including choosing a career. We choose a career because we enjoy doing the job and because either it pays well or the knowledge we gain from performing the job enables us to invest well (e.g., banking).

We also tend to be stronger in economics than liberals and we realize the effect that our actions as consumers can have in changing society. Simply not watching the network news and not buying the New York Times has tremendous impact. The New York Times circulation continues to decline while the Wall Street Journal's circulation is essentially flat.

The Times consistently states that its circulation is down because it competes with internet and other media but the reality is that its circulation is down at least in part because people do not agree with its far left political bias.

Answer 5

"After all it is equal opportunity in America, isn't it? There are plenty of fantastic journalism schools, many of them state schools"

I would say that when it comes to journalism your statement is incorrect. You would need to be of a certain mindset to get through journalism school and be hired. The bias is already in most non hard-science departments at most universities, so you would need to either fake your opinions on what you write or you would need to hope they don't kick you out for expressing your own bias. Sure, journalism is suppose to be unbias, but it isn't.

Answer 6

First things first. The premise of a liberal media is bogus.

But you make a good point. Conservatives can change if they desire. They are making strides via Fox News. However there isn't a more biased and skewed news program available on TV. Sure they get good ratings, appealing to the lowest common denominator always does.

Answer 7

Did you post this as a joke or do you really believe that not reporting obamas failures, editing videos to not show what they really show etc etc is not biased. Oh and when an umpire (yes umpire NOT ref) constantly calls strikes when they are obvious balls the umpire either does not like the kid, is incompetent or bias.

Answer 8

The mainstream media don't hire many conservatives. Same in liberal arts & social sciences in universities. They clearly discriminate on the basis of political ideology.

Answer 9

One problem conservatives frequently encounter is getting hired by a liberal journal, magazine or newspaper or major network.

ABC, NBC and CBS all have an overwhelming majority of Democrats and liberals on staff. THEY pick who works for them and they are not picking bright, capable conservatives.

The bias in schools and universities is well-documented, too. If a conservative makes it through his training without being brainwashed he should consider himself very lucky.

Answer 10

Maybe they want to be doctors, lawyers, soldiers, mom's, steel mill workers, fire fighters, cops, teachers, oh man the list goes on and on. It's a liberal based media accept it, get over and move on.

Answer 11

Grow up. Hard work to get a journalism degree? You don't know what hard work is.