The Counterintuitive Reason Legacy Media Leans Left

The left-wing bias of the mainstream media may have been more evident in the recent election than ever before, but its existence has long been recognized.

Some argue that today ’s reporters lean left because they tend to live in places where there are few conservatives.

Others put the blame for media bias on senior editors and broadcast news producers.

The big failing in all three explanations for leftwing media bias is their narrow focus on some personal factors.

Federal funding of competing power centers made it much more difficult for mayors and their elected councils to effectively address local problems.

Even the decline of organized religion, with only 60 percent of U.S. citizens now professing a faith tradition, can be attributed to socioeconomic factors.

The most recent edition of Cision’s annual State of the Media Report identifies “downsizing and reduced resources” as the single biggest challenge to modern journalism.