Dr_Ken's Journal: Why Most Journalists Are Democrats

Psychology Today has an article by a practicing journalist about why journalists tend to be left of center politically.

"Journalism," the PT article says, "like social work, tends to attract individuals with a keen interest in bettering the world. In other words, journalists self-select based on a desire to help others. Socialism, with its 'spread the wealth' mentality intended to help society's underdogs, sounds ideal."

I found this article to be pretty persuasive and its evidence while anecdotal seem to have a large degree of verisimilitude and it would be worthwhile for some empirical evidence sifting to find out how true it all it is. I found it interesting anyhow.