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You're not the first person to make this sort of argument, it's a common trope.

If self-identified Republicans aren't getting involved in journalism that doesn't make the automatic fair conclusion that journalism has gotten more biased against Republicans. Republicans have grown increasingly skeptical of any media outlets that challenge their preconceived notions. This hostility is likely reflected in their declining representation.

Here's another article from the same outlet with a rather different take on the issue than you're proposing:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... irefox-b-d

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ose-cover/

You're not making a well-reasoned argument now, even if you have made them on other topics in the past.

Your point number 2 was invalidated by the journal article I posted. Regardless of what political persuasion journalists carry, the process by which news goes through an editorial process removes openly biased or unsubstantiated news you claim is actively inserted by the journalists. I am amazed you subscribe to such a farcical conspiracy??

Conservative political leaders are in the habit of claiming left wing bias in national broadcasters (nothing new there). Trump has gone further by attacking all the commercial media outlets that report him in a negative light. Even when he tweets garbage and the evidence is there for all the public to see he will attack CNN or ABC for simply reporting what he said and call it fake news.

In terms of your point 1, most journalists are generally left leaning as one the motivating factors in choosing a career in journalism is a passion/interest in social justice rather than making money. But what you conveniently leave out in your "rigorously" backed claim is that all editors and media chiefs (whom they report to) are more in sync with voters and infact vote conservative.
https://theconversation.com/whose-views ... left-13995

So I am afraid your argument falls over. Newspaper media chiefs and editors are never going to publish anti-conservative stories, if anything left leaning voters have more justification to criticise the media as being controlled by conservatives but they don't because left-leaning voters tend to be critical thinkers and prefer to actually read the content of the stories rather than obey their leaders like attack dogs and blindly attack the media.

The MAGAs have been classified as a cult by your own American Psychological Association and judging from the last election result it has a substantial following.

Facebook is just another way you distract the herd from the reality of this Broken World. What's the point of having 300+ friends if you only regularly talk to a handful of them? It's the definition of fake. Instagram and Twitter is no different.