White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer unearths the political affiliations of those present at a White House briefing on June 7, 2021 and reveals an implicit bias present throughout the White House press corps: Reporters attending in-person briefings rank 12:1 Democrat to Republican.
The White House briefing room did not look, sound, or register to vote like America
- The ratio of journalists to non-journalists was only 12:1, not 24:0 like it was in Columbia Journalism School
- Fleischer blamed the fact that the ratio was not as high as it should have been for the bad optics
Prof. Richard Vatz, a Towson University tenured professor who specializes in political persuasion and rhetoric, told The Federalist that Fleischer's discovery "echoes findings over many decades."
- In major media survey, journalists are found to be overwhelmingly liberal, and in poll after poll they consistently vote for Democrats.
America would be well served to have a robust press corps representing different outlets, considerations, and, most of all, questions for the president
- Geographic bias embedded in the Acela Corridor is a key variable when evaluating press corps perspectives
- The media’s left-wing bent has grown far worse over the past seven to eight years driven primarily by geographic bias and a visceral reaction to Donald Trump
- While Trump dealt with a hostile press corps that turned daily coronavirus press conferences into sparring matches over whether the term “Chinese Coronavirus” was racist, Biden has enjoyed far friendlier treatment
- Biden has been full of soft-ball questions from pre-selected reporters who’ve given the White House little grief for keeping the president away from the media
- Data from the American Presidency Project show Biden is one of the least accessible presidents in modern American history, having conducted only 16 total press conferences since taking office last year, including nine alone and seven as joint affairs
- Trust in the media has collapsed to a new low, according to Gallup
- Just 16 percent of Americans trust “newspapers” with a 30-point gap between Republicans and Democrats
- Thirty-five percent of Democrats said they maintained a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers, while only a three percent drop from last year could happen
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