Put Your Money Where Your Bias Is

There is no question that in this country there is a tremendous liberal media bias. For whatever reason the people who get into the news business are mostly liberals. I don't know why this is, I guess the young conservatives are at Goldman Sachs making huge bonuses.
Now that doesn't necessarily mean their coverage is biased, but you have a pretty good idea that it's at least somewhat affected. And I think this is the #1 reason why the Fox News Channel caught, passed and now kicks CNN's ass. Of the people who want to watch news they agree with, liberals have a bunch of choice, conservatives have one.
But everyone in the media denies this bias. MSNBC did a study of all political contributions made by journalists to interest groups and to candidates in national elections only. They all have to be disclosed and I think employer is part of the disclosure process.
143 journalists made the list (a very small fraction of the total journalists, but as we will see, a representative one) and 9 times as many gave to Democrats as to Republicans.