Of the 462 people surveyed, 17.63% called themselves "very liberal," while 40.84% described themselves as "somewhat liberal."Okay, IBD is being a little alarmist, but even lumping the moderates together with those who admit conservatism, you get less than 42%. It's amazing these are financial journalists, the one group of news writers you'd think might lean right.
When you add it up, 58.47% admit to being left of center. Along with that, another 37.12% claim to be "moderate."
What about the mythic "conservative" financial journalist? In fact, a mere 0.46% of financial journalists called themselves "very conservative," while just 3.94% said they were "somewhat conservative." That's a whopping 4.4% of the total that lean right-of-center.
Nearly sixty percent admit leaning left. I have to wonder if their responses reflect them reporting what they believed university-based researchers or their journalistic peers wanted to hear?
Full disclosure: The abstract doesn't emphasize political leanings as a major finding, someone at IBD apparently dug that info out of the complete study, which is behind a paywall.
