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They are the 96% and that’s why news is so biased
The 96% make no effort to cover the many failures of the Biden
administration
Dan Gainor By Dan Gainor Fox News
Published January 17, 2024 5:00am EST

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Journalism is in chaos. It is an industry where only a tiny percentage
of people dare hold different political opinions and more than 60% of journalists think the news business is going in the "wrong direction."
Don’t take my word for it. Take theirs.

More than 1,600 journalists responded to a survey from Syracuse
University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and the results
are damning. Only 3.4% of U.S. journalists claim to be Republicans, with another 36.4% saying they’re Democrats. That’s more than 10 times more Democrats than Republicans. Or at least the ones who will admit they are
on the left.

More than half (51.7%) call themselves "independents" and another 8.5%
"other." Journalists have been getting these survey questions for more
than 50 years and they have grown savvier. Many carefully list
themselves in those other categories to avoid being called biased. So,
just keep that 3.4% number in mind. Out of all journalists.

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Only 3.4% of U.S. journalists claim to be Republicans, with another
36.4% saying they’re Democrats. (iStock)

Or let’s give the real number – 96.6% are not Republicans.

IF YOU WANT TO SEE MEDIA BIAS, LOOK AT HOW THE PRESS COVERED THIS CRAZY
BIDEN HANDOUT

That’s how Russiagate and Russian collusion get rammed down the throats
of the American public like the scandal really happened. (Hint: It
didn’t.) That’s how they cover for a president who is barely coherent
much of the time and lies constantly about his family, his
accomplishments and his past. (Hey Potus, say hi to Corn Pop for me.)

Remember when the press tried to tally then-President Donald Trump’s so-called "lies?" For President Biden, they call them misstatements or
ignore them entirely. As Sgt. Muldoon explained in the John Wayne movie,
"Green Berets," "Well... that's newspapers for you, ma'am. You could
fill volumes with what you don't read in them."

Dave Portnoy speaks out on confronting WaPo reporter: 'Journalism has
become activism'Video

It’s only gotten worse since actor Aldo Ray read those lines. In 1971, one-fourth of U.S. journalists were Republican. In 50 years, journalism
has essentially purged any political opposition in its ranks. And we get
the result.

Ninety-six-percent agreement is how the press tries to convince you that
the border isn’t a problem when even Democrat mayors are screaming that
it is. And their cities are only hit with a tiny portion of what red
states have had to endure.

And this is how you get an elite press that pretends ordinary Americans
can afford food, rent and mortgages, when those same Americans tell you
they can’t and 96% are worried about the economy. It’s so bad that one-fourth of Americans are "doom spending" money they don’t have to compensate.

The world of journalism has changed dramatically: Ted Cruz Video
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The 96% make no effort to cover the many failures of the Biden
administration. The administration backed Ukraine, but not well enough
for it to win. Our military is under near constant attack in the
Mideast, and we barely respond as trade routes are conquered by terrorists.

Because the 96% are firmly in the Democrat camp. Heck, they went out of
their way to elect President Biden and are trying to do so again.

Most journalists won’t even admit the news industry’s problems. If you
dig further into this enlightening study, only 21.8% think any sort of "political orientation" diversity is needed in their newsrooms. And it’s unclear if that means they think their outlets need to even be more
liberal or more conservative. To emphasize that point, only 12.7% think "perceived bias and opinion journalism" is a problem.

Journalism, truth and liesVideo
Journalism has become a dad joke. What’s the difference between
ignorance and indifference? They don’t know and they don’t care.

The problems with our journo elite don’t stop there. Whites make up less
than 60% of the U.S. population, but 82% of the news media. That doesn’t bother them either. Only about one-fourth of those studied think racial diversity is an issue in their newsrooms.

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More than eight out of 10 journalists said performing a government
"watchdog" role is important. Ironic for a field that didn’t notice when
the secretary of defense went AWOL and disappeared for several days for surgery.

Journalism in crisisVideo
Nearly all journalists (96.4%) have college degrees, a huge change from
the 1982 study, about the time I started my news career when it was
about 70%. Journalism used to be considered a trade that you could
learn. Now, it’s a field that requires expensive college indoctrination,
so they are unbothered by the biases they encounter every day.

As journalism has become an elite field, it has abandoned its role in
serving the public. Local journalism has dried up or has almost no
resources. National journalism is dominated by a few outlets like The Washington Post and New York Times and even the Post just had buyouts.
Only 7.4% of those surveyed think reaching the widest audience is
"extremely important."

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So much for the dad joke about newspapers being black and white and read
all over.

It’s no wonder why Americans have lost faith in the news media. And it
will get substantially worse this election. The 96% have spoken.

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Dan Gainor is a freelance opinion editor for Fox News Digital.


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f'ndemidiots
9 hours ago

I've always thought to myself that I wish Elon Musk would have bought a
major network instead of Twitter, and changed it to a conservative or Republican point of view, top to bottom, local affiliates to national.
Until some company jumps in and disrupts the news cycle the way it is
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mbomberdavid
8 hours ago

we dont need people in the news that are political, it should be fact
based, consistent and as unbiased as possible.


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cindamommy
8 hours ago

Journalists and Reporters are supposed to present the information and
NOT create disinformation. Facts should be presented and We the People
decide. They are paid operatives working for the Biden Whitehouse and
the DNC. It's frelling obvious.

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pauldrake136
7 hours ago

During the last election, at 2200hrs Central Time.. even CNN was calling
the election for Mr Trump.. then suddenly overnight, 10's of 1000's of
mail-in votes come in for Mr Biden. ONLY Mr Biden.. they didn't even try
to make it look like some "lost" ballots were for Trump as well.

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calirepublican1
5 hours ago

The same thing will happen again.


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orvis638
9 hours ago

From what I viewed on Mainstream Media, not one major outlet covered
Trump’s speech after Iowa. They showed images with a reporter voiceover…
no audio. It was a VERY DIFFERENT Trump calling for coming together and thanking his opponents, kindly. Rachel Maddow said they would not air it
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tough@heart
4 hours ago

And people complain both party is divisive. Maddox shows divisive and
bias 100%. She has no business deciding what should and should not be
out there. She doesnt own MSNBC but apparently the owner doesnt seem to
mind.


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cindamommy
8 hours ago

They are using the Communist model of deception.

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arbiter9605
11 hours ago

Of the 96.6% that aren't republican, 95.6% are democrat just only 36.4%
are willing to admit it. Remember how many news networks that will say
they aren't partisan then start spouting partisan talking points.


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lola1972
9 hours ago

I hardly listen to any mainstream news anymore. I only trust fox 10% of
the time. I hate to say it, but if you really want to be informed, you
have to find the news through other avenues…


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ohknow
8 hours ago

More than half (51.7%) call themselves "independents"! They are
democrats, they just will not admit it.


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dbelpaocrkts
9 hours ago

When news organizations were required to allow equal time, there was not
as much polarization of the news. Maybe time to bring that back.


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rhino2020
11 hours ago

Honestly, I'd prefer news that just focused on the news, stating the
facts and keeping all opinions to themselves. But that doesn't make
money, now does it?


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mwwsbn
8 hours ago

That's all fine and good, but they could still choose which stories to
report.


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What!!’
7 hours ago

Just hope that they would just REPORT THE NEWS, THESE PEOPLE ARE WHATS
WRONG WITH THE MEDIA

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justjamie
7 hours ago

This is why there are such high numbers of people who don't trust the
news, or who say the news is biased.

The saddest thing about this is that the media are in denial about their
bias. It's like a drug addict being in denial about their addiction.
These left-wing media outlets think they are 'un...

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