Slowly, Slowly It Dawns...
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.