Huh

The liberal watchdog group Media Matters has issued a study claiming conservative religious leaders are disproportionately favored as guests in the mainstream press than liberals and progressives.

Go ahead and reel your jaw back up, I'll wait.

Really, this seems obvious and not even all that sinister. It would be better to have equal representation, but sadly this only reflects the reality that conservative religious folks are just that much more plentiful. And certainly when it comes to politics it's far easier to find ardent, on-message spokesbots for the righties than it is to find a comparable preacher, priest, rabbi etc. who will openly embrace liberal/progressive opinions. (It's unfortunate in this case that the press generally shares my distaste for "moderates," when it comes to people of the cloth, that's often the most you can hope for.)

Having said that, however, it is a problem that journalists regularly defer to religious conservatives for any "true and proper" interpretation of the faith, (witness any number of reporters through the years who uncritically say the rapture nuts are using "a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation.")