jim kuipers is a professor at virginia tech university.he did a survey of 100 xt newspapers and found the media tend to operate within a fairly narrow range of beliefs. not only are the liberal, but their range of contacts in the range of views they represent in their stories tends to be within a narrow range as well. the other thing jim kuipers said that was interesting was the 10 you to omit reasonable and diverse conservative voices and highlight the more radical liberal voices. that is one of the reasons why whenever folks like the pastor in florida who burnt the koran or the pastor fred phelps of west borough baptist church, will protest at the funerals of servicemen. those stories get picked up because they are loud and shrill, but they are not representative of the overwhelming majority of conservative or christian people in this country. but because most liberal journalists don't have any sense of rolodex of conservative and evangelical context, they just tend to gravitate to the ones they care the most about. so it creates a flawe

fast forward another 15 or so years, and we come to jim kuiper's study. he's a professor at virginia tech university, and he did a survey of 116 newspapers and found that media tend the operate within a -- tend to operate within a fairly narrow range of liberal beliefs. in other words, or not only are they liberal, but their range of contacts and range of, the range of views that they represent in their stories tends to be within a fairly narrow range as well. the other thing that jim chi possessor said that was really interesting was that they tended to omit conservative voices and highlight the more radical liberal voices. i think that is one of the reasons why whenever folks like that pastor in florida who burned the quran or the pastor from fred phelps of westboro baptist church, you know, protests at the funerals of servicemen, those stories get picked up because they're loud, and they're shrill. but they are not representative of the overwhelming majority of either conservative or christian people in this country. but because most liberal journalist