Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Liberal media bias Message-ID: <1140@dciem.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 17:09:24 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1140 Posted: Mon Oct 15 17:09:24 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 17:20:58 EDT References: <1369@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 19 > In last year's Oct/Nov issue of 'Public Opinion' prof. Lichter of George > Washington Univ. and Prof. Rothman of Smith College published the results > of interviews with 240 people responsible for news content in various > media outlets. > > They report that the % of them voting for the Demo. candidate from 1964 to > 1976 never dropped below 80%. This includes the George McGovern candidacy. > > sdcrdcf!alan This suggests that most of them are pretty professional in doing their job according to their editor's/publisher's wishes. It's also interesting that such a high percentage of the most informed segment of the population should consistently vote Democrat. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt