NO SURPRISES HERE: Research Finds Much less Than 4 % of American Journalists Are Republicans | The Gateway Pundit

A brand new examine has discovered that solely 3.4 % of American journalists are Republicans. Did they actually need to do a examine to be taught this? Additionally, doesn’t that quantity appear a bit of excessive?

This simply confirms what everybody already knew anyway. This is the reason journalists at political debates usually sound like they’re debating the Republican candidate – as a result of they’re. They see Republicans as opponents, not simply political candidates.

It additionally explains why nearly all of them undergo from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Mediaite studies:

Research Finds That Simply 3.4% of American Journalists Are Republicans

A brand new examine from Syracuse College’s Newhouse College of Public Communications discovered that simply 3.4% of American journalists are Republicans.

The examine relies “on an internet survey with 1,600 U.S. journalists carried out in early 2022” and is the most recent in a collection of research stretching again to 1971 that take the temperature of the fourth property’s partisan lean, job satisfaction, {and professional} attitudes.

When the primary iteration of the examine got here out over 50 years in the past, 35.5% of respondents stated they have been Democrats, 25.7% stated they have been Republicans, and 32.5% stated they have been Independents. The proportion that decision themselves Democrats or independents have bounced round through the years, with the proportion of Democrats reaching a excessive of 44.1% in 1992…

The final iteration of the examine earlier than this most up-to-date one, pegged the proportion of Republican journalists in America at 7.1%, the proportion of Democrats at 28.1%, and the proportion of Independents at 50.2% in 2013.

Nobody is shocked by any of this besides that the quantity is that top.

The media doesn’t mirror the nation it studies on, that’s for certain.