The figure on journalists is interesting too and matches the difference between liberals and conservatives in this Pew poll from 2004, which said in part:
About a third of national journalists (34%) and somewhat fewer local journalists (23%) describe themselves as liberals; that compares with 19% of the public in a May survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Moreover, there is a relatively small number of conservatives at national and local news organizations. Just 7% of national news people and 12% of local journalists describe themselves as conservatives, compared with a third of all Americans.
Many people have noted the 34/7 number for the National Press and that liberals outnumber conservatives by about 5 times there. This stands in stark contrast to the numbers for the general population where conservatives outnumber liberals 33/20. Keep in mind that this is also a self described survey.
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