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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The number of American journalists who say they’re Republican has, just like journalism itself, hit new lows. Now only 3.4% of journalists identify as members of the Grand Old Party, and longtime observers of the establishment media in this country will likely be surprised that the percentage is that high.
Fox News reported Saturday that the study, which Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications conducted based on a survey of 1,600 journalists, found that 36.4% said that they were Democrats. Fifty-one percent said that they were independents, which is in keeping with the impartiality and evenhandedness that journalists are supposed to bring to their work. It would have been illuminating, however, if the survey had dug deeper and asked the journalists questions about where they stood on various issues: the prosecution of Trump, the open border, abortion, and more. Then it would have been clear that the overwhelming majority of those “independents” are, like their counterparts who said they were Democrats, farther to the left than Stalin or Mao.
The study did, however, demonstrate a general move to the left among journalists that has been going on for decades now. “The first-of-its-kind study,” Fox noted, “which made its debut in 1971, has witnessed a dramatic shift in the percentages of Republican and Democratic journalists over the years.” Back in 1971, the first study “revealed that 35.5% of respondents said they were Democrats, 25.7% said they were Republicans and 32.5% said they were Independents.”
Those numbers were much less lopsided than today’s breakdown, but even then, it was tough for Republicans, and patriots in general, to get fair treatment in the media. As far back as 1962, Richard Nixon was complaining about the biased press coverage of his campaign for governor of California when he said, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” In 1971, journalist Edith Efron published a book entitled “The News Twisters,” demonstrating that there had been serious media bias in its coverage of the 1968 presidential election. And the propaganda machine of the establishment media was just in its infancy then.
Now, decades later, no one bats an eye when Democratic Party operatives such as Jen Psaki, George Stephanopoulos, Donna Brazile, and a host of others go into the “news” business. It is taken for granted that every reporter for every major publication, every one, is a hard-left ideologue. And now the number of journalists who dare to admit that they’re Republicans has steadily gone down. In 1982, it fell to 18.8%. By 2013, it was 7%.
And now the 3.4% who still stand by the GOP must be operating under extremely deep cover, revealing their American flags and MAGA hats only to their closest and most trusted circle of family and friends, while outwardly adhering to the dreary protocol of “diversity,” Marxist agitprop, race resentment, enforced gender confusion, and all the rest. This is, of course, how life is not in a free society, but in a totalitarian state. One reveals one’s true sentiments only among those who can be trusted, all the while being painfully aware that even those who can be trusted cannot really be trusted, as they could all too easily have been turned, by threats or blackmail or bribes, into informants.
If the establishment media were what it claims to be, its demographics would reflect those of the larger population: “a November Gallup poll found that 29% consider themselves Democrats, 29% consider themselves Republicans, and 40% consider themselves independents.” Or even better, no one would know or care about the party affiliation of journalists at all, because they would scrupulously maintain the division between editorializing and reporting the facts.
The establishment media, however, has long since made it clear that it is not at all interested in reporting the facts. The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and all the rest of them are just propaganda arms for the hard left, reflecting whatever view that the political elites want you to hold on any given issue. And so the low number of Republicans in the Syracuse University study is not what’s surprising. What’s surprising is that, amid all the propaganda and misinformation coming from today’s media outlets, there is even one patriotic journalist.
There are no journalists anymore.
No, just automatons. They don’t even think, they just stick to scripts shared throughout the fake news media and Dirtbagocrat party. They all recite the groupthink talking points and retain a united front of scumbaggery like the overpaid proles they are. F***, I hate them. They’re like palace courtiers.
Well, there are but not in the mainstream media. They’re allowed only to be online or on niche outlets. It’s ironic, indeed, that these journalists, like Andy Ngo, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Lee Smith, etc. are the best out there while the mainstream press employ partisan Leftist activists who cannot write a lede paragraph worthy of the name.
“WE” want Journalists not Propagandists!
“WE” want Educators not Indoctrinators.
“WE” want Jobs not Mobs.
“WE” want Workers not Freeloaders.
“WE” want ALL Colors United, not Divided.
“WE” want Guiltless Wealth Accumulation not forced Wealth Distribution.
“WE” want Flag Wavers not Flag Desecrators.
“WE” want Family and Friend Unions not Political Exclusions.
“WE” want Honorable Legals not Cheating the System Dishonorable Illegals.
(From SC list of 25: “What do We the People Want.” Democrats hate these so I tell them to read them backwards so they can be happy.)
Blame University Journalism professors who give assignments to cover speaker/protests, wouldn’t you know it, they’re all Far-Left speakers/protests, never a Conservative like Charlie Kirk, David Horowitz, Robert Spencer, but they will write that they’re all White Supremacists and about their hate speech even though they NEVER go hear them for themselves. The students who write that these Far-Left zealots are good, fighting for Justice, they get recommendations to write for the College newspaper. They’re so proud, and get praise, especially by other Journalism profs, students, for their first one-sided article. They switch majors, maybe make it to Editor, then graduate to local, state, and national news to ONLY PROMOTE THE CULT AGENDA.
UNIVERSITIES ARE NOW RECRUITING AND BRAINWASHING IN ALL FIELDS. The “good” students get the good grades, on to grad school, maybe a doctorate. THEY ARE HIRED by those college students who are now in a hiring position, and they only hire their own, sorta like Obama surrounding himself with CPUSA recruits who were also in their Fronts, tied even to the KGB, and then appointing them to head Departments where they only hire Leftists/Communists, which then conspired in a Coup attempt against a sitting President and still going after that now former President.
New Mexico is last in Education. First in Welfare/EBT. First/Second in Crime (“Defund the Police” now they’re pretending to support Law and Order…. wait… election time and crime is the number one issue?) NM has been ruled by Democrat for NINETY YEARS! They keep getting voted in by throwing money out of airplanes: “Free Free Free but you must vote for Me Me Me!” NM IS PURE BLUE. “SOS!”
Given the fact that the journalism schools are heavily on the leftist side and have been for decades, and that you can’t get your diploma unless you have become a leftist, it is surprising that one single journalist has declared himself on the conservative side today.
No wonder the Media spouts Leftist propaganda.
Perhaps more Republicans should become journalists
You only have to watch the Talking Heads on TV or read or listen to the M.S. Media to realize that the M.S. Media re mostly all Demoret Voters and Supporters still tying to make Bisen look like #1 leader