I gave my opinion of liberal proclivity from my experience in many large and small newsroom including the Parliamentary Press Gallery and Washington Press Club. "Wiki stats" don't enter into it.

Numbers of circulation, listeners and viewers matter, Craig. They're the difference in media centres surviving or closing. Media owners try to provide an intelligent diet of information and opinion that increasingly informed subscribers have grown to expect.

I've said many times there is no such thing as neutral "non-opinionated" news columns because human nature being what it is, reporters choose words which reflect, consciously or otherwise, what they think. I never heard of your non-voter theory.

Writing has been my craft for more than 65 years.