There is just more money to be made if you are a "Conservative"

[KlatooBNikto]

journalist. With phony or real foundations, PR firms and just front men waving wads of cash at you,it would take great self control for a journalist to refuse to write or say whatever the "client" wants.In that sense, one can say there are few, if any journalist who aren't bought and paid for. That, in essence, is what the late William.H.Colby claimed before he set sail to take his own life.

[benburch]

1. Certainly true in Liberal radio!

I run http://www.WhiteRoseSociety.org/ as my full time business. And let me assure you, I work 12+ hours per day 5 days a week, and 4+ hours the other two, and I don't make minimum wage yet!

I guess running a small business at poverty wages is "uniquely american", too.

[KlatooBNikto]

3. Money occupies such a central role in our society, what with people

trying to outdo each other in conspicuous consumption, it would take a person of enormous self confidence to turn down the opportunities offered by the RW foundations or News organizations.This is why you see people like mainstream journalists never once questioning the policies of the administration because that is not where the money is.
Their independence is as much of a myth as George Bush's intelligence.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Probably why I'm a Democrat.....................

I live a very "minimalist" life style and like it that way. Too much money brings too many problems. The more you own, the more it owns you.............that kind of stuff. It took me quite a while in my life to realize that, but I'm happier than I've ever been.

[KlatooBNikto]

4. Good for you. After pursuing the American Dream for nearly four

decades and becoming successful at it, I too have reached that point.I have decided to hang it up and spend the rest of my life teaching youngsters in middle and high schools skills in Math and Science. For the first time in nearly forty years, I am excited!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Conservative pundits make the rubber chicken circuits, and...

liberals don't.

Insurance agents, taxidermists, chambers of commerce...

All have conventions, and if they can snag a George Will or Pat Buchanan, that's going to get attention from the members and give them bragging rights.

Fees run from 5 grand for the nobody's up to over a hundred grand for Colin Powell, and they all give exactly the same speech to every group. Easy work if you can get it.

Except for very few, centrists and liberals don't get the offers, and when they do they get paid a lot less. They're in the 5 grand area.

Yup, the money's over on the right, but it's not in the payola, it's in rubber chicken.

And, don't forget the part-time job offers. Rightwing think tanks pay a lot better than the others and don't demand all that much work.

[Hugin]

6. Although I agree with your assessment...

of the current situation.

It makes me wonder about how come the liberals aren't the
go to group for funding. You'd think they'd be freer with
the money. Due to a liberal philosophy.

[soupkitchen]

7. Conservative: Knowing there is more money to be made praising the king

than criticizing him.