FOLLOW THE MONEY – AT 8:33 A.M. ET:  Want to know why journalism is so biased?  It's the kind of people who get hired to write and deliver the news.  All you have to do is look at their political contributions.  From the Washington Examiner:

Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.

By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.

Disclosure of the heavily Democratic contributions by influential employees of the three major broadcast networks follows on the heels of controversy last week when it was learned that media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. contributed $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.

COMMENT:  There has been much fainting on the left over Murdoch's contribution, but almost no attention paid to the breathtakingly lopsided record of contributions by people who actually produce news reports. 

Not only is there a liberal bias to news reporting, it's becoming accepted as perfectly proper by a generation of journalists who went into the business to "make a difference."  To them, to paraphrase a leftist professor in the 1960s, the truth is what supports progressive causes.

I suspect it will take an entire generation to clean up journalism, assuming anyone employed by the mainstream media has a desire to clean it up.  In the meantime, immense damage to the country is being done. 

August 28, 2010