Study: Media more liberal, secular than ever
 

  A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 32% of national reporters acknowledged being politically liberal – compared to only 19% of the general public.
  Kristen Fyfe of the Media Research Center’s Culture and Media Institute (CMI) said the numbers are not surprising. She said one only has to look at the headlines in the media and, as she put it, “[y]ou get a dose of, basically, liberal propaganda, most of the time.”
  The Pew survey also found that 68% of national reporters and news executives never or almost never attend worship services. In Fyfe’s CMI Special Report titled “Apostles of Atheism,” she found that “91% of the journalists say that you don’t have to believe in God to be a moral person.”
  She said, “We found in our coverage of last years’ news programs that atheists pretty much get a free pass when it comes to reporting on their belief systems.”
  Fyfe says new media such as the Internet and blogs give conservatives and Christians alternative sources of information, but she stressed not giving up on more traditional media. “What I would like to see conservatives do is to really get out there and change the hearts of teenagers and twenty-somethings who are in college.”
  She said younger Christians and conservatives need to learn they are not “weird” for thinking the way they think and to understand that they will need to speak up if the culture war is to be won.
  www.onenewsnow.com, 4/9/08