Marshall Psychology Prof: Media Not Liberal

Published: September 13, 2007, 12:07 pm

Tags: academia, marshall university, media bias debate, surveillance, bill clinton, george w bush, john kerry, larry craig, matt drudge, monica lewinsky, patrick kennedy, tom delay, william jefferson, american journalist, gallup poll, journalistic issues

Marshall University psychology professor W. Joseph Wyatt should probably stick to psychology as oposed to attempting media analysis. However, he has decided to write an op-ed in the Huntington, West Viriginia Herald Dispatch claiming that media bias is a myth. Professor Wyatt begins by claiming that, However, a 2002 Gallup poll showed that slightly more than a third of journalists describe themselves as Democrats, meaning that the vast majority are something else, and unlikely to be liberal. Unfortunately for the good professor, a 2007 Gallup poll as reported in the American Journalist actually found that, When it came to the subject of party affiliation, 36% of the journalists said they were Democrats in 2002 compared with 44% in 1992. (That's the lowest percentage of self-proclaimed Democrats since 1971.) The percentage of Independents dropped slightly from 1992 to 2002 and the ranks of Republicans grew incrementally from 16% to 18%. So we have 36 percent Democrat, 18

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