This Pew Research Center survey has garnered pixels elsewhere (at editorsweblog.org), but I thought I’d point out some interesting numbers.

• The percentage of journalists who see the press as too cynical has dropped at both the local and national levels over the last five years. Roughly, the ratio in 1999 for both local and national journalists just barely topped half. Currently, it sits at about four in 10 for both.

• For ideological parity, the profession needs more self-defined conservative journalists. “Just 7% of national news people and 12% of local journalists describe themselves as conservatives, compared with a third of all Americans,” the survey says.
• Eight in 10 local journalists, and nine in 10 national journalists, feel that a belief in God is not a prerequisite for a moral foundation.

Click through and read the whole survey. It seems a small universe (under 550 of the thousands of U.S. journalists). But, even a small mirror shows you a bit of your face.