[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7042]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MEDIA IDENTIFY AS DEMOCRATS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there are lots of reasons why the 
national media leans liberal. Surely, reporters' political party 
affiliation explains some of their bias.
  A new study of the media by two Indiana University professors found 
that among journalists who choose a side, Democrats outnumber 
Republicans by four to one. Maybe that explains why the liberal 
national media have largely ignored the IRS and Benghazi scandals, 
dismissed climate change skeptics, and sugarcoated ObamaCare.
  It shouldn't surprise us that journalists have removed from their 
code of ethics the requirement that their ``news reports should be free 
of opinion or bias and represent all sides of the issue.''
  Isn't it incredible that it has been removed from the journalists' 
code of ethics?
  The media should give the American people the facts, not tell them 
what to think.

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