With the media becoming so polarized, who can you trust?
Amazing ratios when you look at 7 to 1 or 17 to 1.
This is why Christ warned us to remain watchful, so we are not deceived.
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Journalism: That the media were in the tank for Barack Obama in 2008 is almost a given. But how much they favored him is now being quantified, and the margins appear to be even wider than those for liberal candidates of the past.
Thanks to the Washington Examiner, which analyzed data from the Center for Responsive Politics, we learn that “senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC” were overwhelmingly in the Obama camp.
Overall, 1,160 employees of the big three networks gave Democratic candidates and campaign committees $1.02 million, while 193 contributed $142,863 to Republican candidates and campaign committees. That’s a 7-to-1 ratio.
It pales against the imbalance at the candidate level. Obama took in 710 such contributions worth $461,898 compared with the $26,926 that his GOP opponent, Sen. John McCain, got from 39 contributors. That’s 18-to-1 contributors and 17-to-1 contributions.
Someone will no doubt eventually come out with a study of how journalists voted in ’08. But the ratios will probably be similar. If so, media support for Obama was even greater than those of Democrats in past presidential elections — and those were pretty one-sided.
In 1964, journalists from the top newspaper, magazine and TV outlets voted for Democrats 94% to 6%, according to a study by political scientists Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. They also found the same “media elite” voted 86% for Democrat Hubert Humphrey over Republican Richard Nixon in 1968, when Humphrey pulled just 43% in a three-man race that included George Wallace.
In 1972, when Nixon beat liberal Democrat George McGovern in a 62% landslide, Lichter and Rothman determined that 81% of top journalists voted for the liberal McGovern. The percentage was the same in 1976, when the media backed Democrat Jimmy Carter over Republican President Gerald Ford.
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