I’m currently waiting on the data from Journalist ‘05, a regular (every five years) survey of Swedish journalists, which are as I write being turned into book form by Prof. Kent Asp and colleagues. In the meantime, here are some results from the 2000 survey:
Public
Journalists
SVT Journalists
Left
15
31
33
Social Democrats
32
27
23
Centre
4
3
2
People’s Party
5
14
17
Moderates
25
10
6
Greens
6
10
14
Christian Democrats
13
5
5
Journalists in general are more left-libertarian [...]
The ‘Bonsai’ column in Repubblica has, over the past few months, been painting a wonderful picture of Vannino Chiti – Minister in charge of relationships with Parliament – as a type of electoral Lieutenant Columbo. From Wikipedia:
Columbo’s signature technique was to exit the scene of an interview, invariably stopping in the doorway or returning a [...]