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John Leo: Tomorrow's newsroom -- a closed Leftist shop? "Why does the news business keep hiring more and more people who disagree sharply with the customers, many of whom are already stampeding out the door for a variety of reasons? One explanation is that national journalism is now an elite profession, staffed by people� -- black and white, female and male -- �who went to elite colleges and who share the conventional social views of their class. This was not true a generation ago. When I was at the New York Times, the leadership was full of people who had gone to the wrong schools and fought their way up with brains and talent. Two desks away from mine was McCandlish Phillips, a born-again Christian who read the Bible during every break, no matter how brief. Phillips was a legendary reporter, rightly treated with awe by the staff, but I doubt he would be hired by most news organizations today. He prayed a lot and had no college degree .. The big deal is that media workers are becoming [increasingly leftist] at a fairly rapid pace� -- up from 22 percent nine years ago to 34 percent now, according to Pew. It would be a bigger deal if the hiring of [leftists] reached the point (as it has in the academic world) where [non-leftists] don�t bother to apply for jobs .. ". More JOHN LEO. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack