This should come as no surprise but many journalists are liberal but this is a very interesting article asking why that is so.
Most journalists take a number of psychology, sociology, political science, and humanities courses during their early years in college. Unfortunately, these courses have long served as ideological training programs—ignoring biological sources of self-serving, corrupt, and criminal behavior for a number of reasons, including lack of scientific training; postmodern, antiscience bias; and well-intentioned, facts-be-damned desire to have their students view the world from an egalitarian perspective.
In other words they are indoctrinated as soon as they enter college. So they either become true believers or "get along to get along" in order to pass their classes. That is why I am taken aback by reading some liberal blog comments that say that the press is not liberal at all because they are corporate controlled. The evidence is right there in black and white but they are so indoctrinated into the idea that the corporation is evil that they can't see past that.
The press has been liberal for decades just like the majority of academia in the non-hard sciences or business school. So this article basically proves the point that a liberal journalism curriculum creates more liberal journalists. In other words the idea of the press with no biases should be scrapped and we should just go back to the yellow journalism days of the 20s.
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