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From: rohn@randvax.UUCP (Laurinda Rohn)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: To tim sevener re media bias
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 13:48:54 EST
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> > No, you haven't proved that there is a conservative bias in the press.
> > Think about it for a minute.  Who determines what candidates will be
> > endorsed by a paper?  The reporters?  Not hardly.  Even the editor?
> > Not usually.  Who?  The publisher and/or owner!  Now, what sorts of
> > people are they?  Well, they often tend to be rather well off financially.
> > And what party do "The Rich" traditionally belong to?  Republican, yes?
> > So what candidates are the publisher/owners going to have their papers
> > endorse?  Do they care much about how their staff feels?  Not often.
> > The fact is that an overwhelming percentage of the nation's reporters,
> > those who actually cover the news, are liberals and/or Democrats.
> ...
> > 					Lauri
> 
> This is not necessarily a good model for Republicans and/or conservatives.
> For example, Harvard is very wealthy and very liberal, while Mississippi
> is very poor and very conservative.  Certainly the liberal New York Times
> overfloweth with cash.
> ---
> 			Greg Kuperberg

Please note the qualifiers in my statements.  I did not say all wealthy
people are Republicans, but that that is a tendency.  My point was that
just because newspapers endorse conservative candidates doesn't mean that
the majority of the reporters and editors are conservatives or that there
is a "conservative bias" in the way they report news.  The publisher/
owner is the one who endorses, not the staff.

					Lauri