Many right-leaners accuse academia of being biased against them, because most academics lean left. But maybe, just maybe, the problem is not with academia, but with right-leaners:
"news subscribers ... tend to be left-leaning" ... "Regular payers ... tend to have received more formal education and are more likely to be left leaning politically than right leaning, (especially in the US)."
(Reuters analysis, noted in NYT)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/paying-news-price-conscious-consumers-look-value-amid-cost-living-crisis
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