New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang argued that media bias is not due to a conspiracy among journalists, but to the fact that the vast majority of journalists are left-wing.
Mr. Kang contributed an article to The New Yorker titled “Is the media really biased?” This is in response to a recent Gallup poll showing that Americans’ trust in mass media is not only still at a historically low level, but consistently at its lowest for three consecutive years.
He responded by addressing multiple common criticisms from Americans on both sides of the political spectrum, including that “all news organizations that pretend to be objective are actually leaning heavily to the left.” Not only that, but the media is actively collaborating to bring down the Democratic Party.” It’s Donald Trump. ”
“The most obvious explanation for this impression is that the press corps is made up mostly of liberals,” he wrote in the article, adding that “many high-level news organizations don the armor of impartiality. But the imbalance is even more skewed to the left than many outsiders imagine. ”
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He recalled the emergence of Uli Berliner as a whistleblower against NPR and the rise of progressive identity politics, but said that the impact of such politics on journalism would ultimately be felt by “(working in media) ) Almost all argued that the impact was insignificant compared to the impact. They are “college-educated Democratic voters from middle- to upper-class families. I have said this before, and I will say it again: In a 15-year career, including “in the media and on television, I have yet to meet a Trump supporter at work. ”
He recalled a specific quote that said it was no secret, but an obvious fact, that journalists were an overwhelmingly liberal crowd.
“The basic ideological homogeneity of the press corps is not a closely guarded secret of journalists and even news organization operators,” he said. In a 2023 interview with Barron’s, New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger said, “Nearly everyone who works at The New York Times lives in a large city and has a college degree. It’s less representative. That means lower gun ownership, and lower church attendance.”
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He responded to this quote by saying, “As Mr. Sulzberger alluded to, a press corps that is largely made up of a certain type of person who votes a certain type of vote, both their prior beliefs and gaps in their knowledge. It’s hard to believe that it doesn’t affect me.”
He claimed that the New York Times was a prime example of this trend.
“And in fact, the Times, which has been the brunt of media criticism across the political spectrum, has no columnists or editorial writers who openly support President Trump. The situation is much the same on major network news programs and programs. “Most newspapers,” he wrote. “Yes, there is a liberal bias in the news.”
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