MSNBC Investigation Discovers 87 Per Cent of American Journalists are Liberals

MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004-2008. Most of the newsroom payouts leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.

Information on contributions was obtained from the public records of the Federal Election Commission. "The donors include CNN's Guy Raz, now covering the Pentagon for NPR, who gave to Kerry the same month he was embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq; New Yorker war correspondent George Packer; a producer for Bill O'Reilly at Fox; MSNBC TV host Joe Scarborough; political writers at Vanity Fair; the editor of The Wall Street Journal's weekend section; local TV anchors in Washington, Minneapolis, Memphis and Wichita; the ethics columnist at The New York Times; and even MTV's former presidential campaign correspondent." Most Americans have now come to a point where they don't trust news people. Many turn to the Internet to research not only news, but reporters. Contributing to a political campaign or cause is a good indication of the journalists individual beliefs. Unfortunately we often find the reporters are introducing their own personal biases when they should only be reporting the impartial facts of a story. The results of surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed that seven in ten (72%) say news organizations tend to favor one side. In the polls 20 year history this is the greatest level of skepticism ever seen. When Mark Singer, a writer for the New Yorker, wrote a piece profiling Howard Dean during the 2004 campaign he simultaneously contributed $250 to the America Coming Together and its get-out-the-vote campaign to defeat President Bush. How biased do you suppose that profile was? If we read the paper or watch the daily news on TV, are we really getting the "news", or are we getting someones opinion on the news? And why are liberal journalists the vast majority of those being hired to report the news?