Election expert Aarebrot, a professor at the Institute for Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, argues that, with few exceptions, most of Norway's media leans to the left politically.
"Most newspapers are what I would call politically correct. By politically correct in Norway today I mean slightly radical, urban and liberal, somewhere between the Thommessen wing in the Liberal Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Labor Party. Much of the tone in the major Norwegian media is there, both electronic and print," Aarebrot told NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting).
Nearly 70 percent of journalists vote Labor (Ap), Socialist Left (SV) or Red Electoral Alliance (RV) according to a poll by Norsk Respons, and this is reflected in the press, Aarebrot said.
Aarebrot also believes it is in the nature of journalism to demand change, and that a new government would give journalists more to write about.
