REPEAT AFTER ME:  "THERE'S NO BIAS IN THE PRESS" – AT 10:56 A.M. ET:   Only seven percent of journalists are Republicans.  Doesn't mean a thing, does it?  From the Washington Times:

A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates’ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.

As Republican candidates prepare for their fourth debate of the primary season Tuesday in Milwaukee, the people doing the questioning are increasingly in the spotlight, with their motives being questioned by the campaigns, voters and even by their fellow journalists.

And self-proclaimed Democratic journalists outnumber Republicans by 4-to-1, according to research by Lars Willnat and David Weaver, professors of journalism at Indiana University. They found 28 percent of journalists call themselves Democrats, while just 7 percent call themselves Republicans — though both numbers are down from the 1970s. Those identifying as independent have grown.

Among Washington correspondents, the ones who dominate national political coverage, it’s even more skewed, said Tim Groseclose, author of “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.” More than 90 percent of D.C. journalists vote Democratic, with an even higher number giving to Democrats or liberal-leaning political action committees, the author said.

COMMENT:  That's pretty much what I'd expect.  It's always been the case that Democrats dominated the class of working journalists.  In the 1930s, the overwhelming majority of newspapers were Republican on their editorial pages, reflecting the beliefs of the owners.  But the reporters were mostly Democrats, making it possible for FDR to get a good break on the news pages, even as he was lambasted in the editorials.

November 9, 2015