A report by the Pew Research Center and Project for Excellence in Journalism, discussed here, reveals — are you sitting down and holding on? — that among journalists working for national media 34% describe themselves as liberal, 54% as moderate, and a whopping 7% as conservative.
Tom Rosenstiel, the project’s director, says the growing proportion of self-identified liberals in the national media — and the fact that “conservatives are not very well represented” — is having an impact. “This is something journalists should worry about,” he says. “Maybe diversity in the newsroom needs to mean more than ethnic and gender diversity.”
Imagine that! The director of a prestigious, establishment journalism report gets a clue that maybe “diversity” should have something to do with, well, diversity.
UPDATE
RatherBiased makes an argument, and cites evidence, that most “moderates” aren’t.
UPDATE II
Tim Blair has a devastating put-down of Australian journalists for their inability to identify liberals.
