A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 32 percent of national reporters acknowledge being politically liberal -- compared to only 19 percent of the general public.
Kristen Fyfe of the Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute (CMI) says the numbers are not surprising.
She contends that all one has to do is pay attention to the headlines in the media and, as she puts it, "you get a dose of, basically, liberal propaganda, most of the time."
The Pew survey also found that 68 percent of national reporters and news executives never or almost never attend worship services. Fyfe, who recently produced a CMI Special Report entitled "Apostles of Atheism," says that "91 percent of the journalists say that you don't have to believe in God to be a moral person."
Kristen FyfeAccording to Fyfe, "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, do give conservatives and Christians alternative sources of information. But she stresses 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-something's who are in college ...," she suggests.
And the CMI spokeswoman would like to see that change of heart cause younger Christians and conservatives to believe 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.
