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Monday, May 16, 2005 10:36 a.m. EDT
Press Voted for Kerry 2-to-1 over Bush
A new survey confirms what many conservatives have long believed: Members of the press have an overwhelming bias for the Democratic Party.
The University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy found that journalists who were surveyed picked Democrat John Kerry over George Bush in the 2004 election by a margin of over 2-to-1.
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The study found that media professionals are often out of step with the rest of America:
43 percent of the public say the press has too much freedom, but only 3 percent of journalists feel that way.
70 percent of journalists say the media do a good or excellent job when it comes to accuracy, while just 40 percent of the public agree.
Only 14 percent of the public can cite "freedom of the press" as a guarantee in the First Amendment.
60 percent of the public believe the media are biased in reporting the news.
22 percent of the public say the government should be allowed to censor the press.
53 percent of the public think journalists should not run stories with unnamed sources.
80 percent of journalists read blogs; fewer than 10 percent of non-journalists do.
61 percent of the public use TV as their main news source, while 20 percent use newspapers.
Among the journalists in the survey - from both newspapers and TV - Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 3-to-1, although about half claimed to be independent.
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