Vintage Media Juxtaposition o' the Day

BadBlue alerts us to a snippet at its technological granddaddy, Memeorandum:

Which leads us to the fairly unsurprising article entitled "Just 7 percent of journalists are Republicans. That’s far fewer than even a decade ago.":

A majority of American journalists identify themselves as political independents although among those who choose a side Democrats outnumber Republicans four to one, according to a new study of the media conducted by two Indiana University professors...

...The great thing about this survey, called "The American Journalist in the Digital Age", is that its been conducted four previous times -- in 1971, 1982, 1992 and 2002. That allows for some fascinating comparisons of how partisanship (or the lack thereof) among reporters has evolved over that time...

...These numbers will likely affirm the belief in conservative circles that "all" reporters are secretly Democrats. (The study was conducted via online interviews with 1,080 reporters.)

And then there's this: Survey: Most Say Journalism Is Headed in the Wrong Direction.

The reporters, editors and producers who put out the news every day are less satisfied with their work, say they have less autonomy in their work and tend to believe that journalism is headed in the wrong direction, according to the initial findings of “The American Journalist in the Digital Age,” a representative survey of U.S. journalists conducted by the Indiana University School of Journalism...

...Most see journalism going in “wrong direction.” Six in 10 journalists (59.7 percent) say that journalism in the United States is going in the wrong direction...

So most journalists are self-identified liberals... and most journalists think journalism is headed in the wrong direction.

In the words of Tommy Vietor, "Dude. Bummer."

Helpful style guide note: the word journalists should always be in double-quotes.