New Yorker writer admits he's never met a Trump supporter at work in 15-year media career

Jay Caspian Kang, a unit writer for The New Yorker, ascribed media bias not to a conspiracy among journalists, but to the information that the overwhelming bulk of journalists are left-leaning.

Kang wrote a portion for The New Yorker, "How Biased Is the Media, Really?" successful effect to a recent Gallup poll showing that Americans’ spot successful wide media remains not lone historically low, but consistently abysmal for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a row.  

He responded by addressing aggregate communal critiques from Americans connected some sides of the governmental spectrum, including the accusation that "Every quality enactment that feigns objectivity is really heavy slanted toward the left. Not lone that; the media is actively moving with the Democrats to decision Donald Trump."

"The astir evident mentation for this content is that the property corps is mostly made up of liberals," helium wrote successful the piece, adding that "At prestige outlets—many of which bash don the armor of impartiality—the imbalance skews a batch further to the near than what galore outsiders mightiness imagine."

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He recalled Uri Berliner emerging arsenic a whistleblower against NPR and the emergence of progressive identity-politics, but argued the effect of specified authorities connected journalism is yet "negligible compared with the effect of the information that astir everyone who works [in the media]" are "college-educated Democratic voters from middle- to upper-middle-class families. I person mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: successful the people of a fifteen-year vocation that has included stints astatine vigor shows, people outlets, integer media and television, I person yet to conscionable a Trump protagonist astatine work."

He recalled a circumstantial punctuation astir however journalists being an overwhelmingly wide assemblage isn't a secret, but an evident information of life.

"The basal ideological homogeneity of the property corps isn’t immoderate concealed that’s tightly guarded by journalists oregon adjacent the radical who tally quality organizations," helium said. "In a 2023 interrogation successful this magazine, A. G. Sulzberger, the steadfast of the New York Times, said, ‘Almost everyone who works astatine the New York Times lives successful the large metropolis and graduated from college. That unsocial makes our unit unrepresentative. It means that we’re going to under-index successful weapon ownership, under-index successful religion attendance.’"

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He responded to the punctuation by arguing, "As Sulzberger intimated, it’s hard to judge that a property corps mostly made up of 1 benignant of idiosyncratic who votes 1 benignant of mode would not beryllium influenced by some their anterior beliefs and their gaps successful knowledge."

He past argued that the New York Times is simply a premier illustration of this trend.

"And, indeed, the Times—who bears the brunt of media criticism crossed each governmental spectrums—has, nor bash they person a columnist oregon editorial writer who openly supports Trump. The concern is mostly the aforesaid astatine the large network-news shows and astir newspapers," helium wrote. "So, yes, determination is simply a wide bias to the news."

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