There is little doubt that most editors and reporters are rooting hard for Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump. The Factor analyzed the bias with communications professors Merrill Brown and Jeff McCall. "The phrase 'liberal media' is in everyone's vernacular these days," Brown said, "and we know from past surveys that the media by and large vote liberal. But we still want to believe they are doing their jobs." McCall added that no one should be terribly surprised by the media's leftward tilt. "The reporters are a reflection of the environments in which they live. They live in newsrooms where most of their colleagues lean left, and they went to colleges and journalism schools where most of their professors leaned left. Most right-leaning reporters would not want to acknowledge that." 

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