Sounds like fuzzy math to me. I know I shouldn’t expect anything better from Fox News — and, for that matter, I shouldn’t be bothering to watch Fox News — but still.
They’re citing some study that says 34% of reporters described themselves as liberal, while only 7% described themselves as conservative. Naturally, they’re drawing all sorts of conclusions about that. (Fox News is always drawing conclusions from things.) A number of people on the panel of shouting heads have pointed out possible problems with the study itself — it asked for self-descriptions rather than positions on particular issues — but nobody seems to be addressing what to me seems a key point: those answers only add up to 41%.
Which means that 59% didn’t describe themselves as liberal or conservative. I could be wrong, but that would seem to indicate that a majority of reporters at least understand the basic idea of objectivity and the danger of bias.
Which is a whole lot more than I can say for Fox. Although maybe somebody on the panel did bring this up, I don’t know. I’ve stopped watching.