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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Liberal media bias
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 17:09:24 EDT
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> 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
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