Only 9 percent say they are on the conservative side. This is astonishing data. In the real world of voters, Democrats do not outnumber Republicans by 12 to 1. The split between Republicans and Democrats is about even. Nor, in the real world, do liberals outnumber conservatives by seven to one.
Conservatives outnumber liberals by about two to one.
Now, there have been other surveys of the political and ideological beliefs of journalists. All have shown a liberal imbalance. But none has shown magnitudes of this sort. The data come from an extensive survey taken by the distinguished Roper Center. More people who are of a liberal persuasion go into reporting because they believe in the ethics and the ideals. . . .