THE PEOPLE AND THE PRESS

Editor and Publisher has an article about a new survey that shows a wide disparity between the views of the people and that of journalists.

Asked who they voted for in the past election, the journalists reported picking Kerry over Bush by 68% to 25%. In this sample of 300 journalists, from both newspapers and TV, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 3 to 1--but about half claim to be Independent. As in previous polls, a majority (53%) called their political orientation “moderate,” versus 28% liberal and 10% conservative.

Add that little nugget to the controversy over Newsweek's possibly erroneous report of Koran desecration by U.S. personnel at Gitmo, which has sparked riots in the Muslim world, and the decline in credibility of the MSM continues.