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Old 09-04-2010, 07:17 PM   #26
Sonny Blount
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Originally Posted by v1k1ng1001 View Post
This is something that's always bugged me.

Conservatives tend to bitch and moan about the liberal media and how the academy is a leftist conspiracy. But no one has ever addressed the hypothesis that educated folks like journalists and professors tend to be progressives precisely because they are educated folks folks who take are following what's happening.
And experienced folk are more likely to be conservative.

But yes, it is clearly related to the political tendencies of people in those industries. And it's what you do with it that matters more than your education, except for its effects on the insecurities of status obsessed people of course.
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