I\'m amused...:
...by the irony of an article that ends with the hope that the Australian media would show little bias, and starts with a (friendly?) dig at Tony Abbott\'s religious convictions.
An August survey by the RMIT journalism department showed that 55 per cent of journalists described themselves as "left" or "small-l liberal" and only 9 per cent described themselves as "right" or "conservative".
Tony Abbott
I wish I could find that study, but five minutes of googling gave me nothing. I\'d love to know what the percentages are when you consider only opinion columnists; also what percentage of the nightly news presents the left or right narrative
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. I feel that the columnists have more of an effect than the rest of the newspaper and television news - not the reporters but the images - more again. I can\'t really make a conclusion though, I got myself into something of an echo chamber this last year.
On a tangential note, if you read the
Liberal Party\'s beliefs
as expressed on their website
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, many of them, especially the third (We believe in those most basic freedoms of parliamentary democracy - the freedom of thought, worship, speech and association.) are very much small-l liberal beliefs. Perhaps Tony wants to stop whining about bias against the Liberal Party if so whatever portion of 55% of journalists consider themselves small-l liberals.
I don\'t mean that the story itself is biased, only what the content is. A story about John Howard opening a new green zone in an inner city suburb I\'d consider as presenting a Liberal narrative as it is painting John Howard in a favourable light in terms of an area of policy he is perhaps considered weak, enviromental policy.
Said website being hostile to Mozilla/Firefox et al, failing silently to present links to any actual content. Then again, it seems that
more Lefties are using Firefox anyway :- )
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