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You say 70% of journalists vote for SV (this is the most leftist of the mainstream parties). That is not true. Almost 70% supported SV or AP in 2003. (AP is the second most leftist of the mainstream parties.)
Link for reference (in Norwegian). SV and AP together had, at the time these statistics were made, support from around 45% of the population according to the closest poll I managed to dig up.
Link for reference in Norwegian again. Almost 70%/45% or 70%/8%. That's quite a difference. And there is more. Around 23% of the people in Norway (according to this poll) supported the right wing populist party (FRP). This party has almost no support among educated groups, be they journalists or others. So It's not reasonable to expect anything close to a proportionate percentage of journalists should support FRP. Your statistics are falling apart.
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Well, bedreviter (Norwegian for Besserwisser for those interested!) obviously botched the numbers, since the poll reported 70% voting for left-leaning parties, not on SV alone (basically filthy communists). If you look closer at the numbers you'll notice that SV is massively overrepresented in that 70% number though. The poll reveals that SV would gotten about 25% of the journailst vote, which is 3 times as high as in the general populace. AP,
Norway's biggest political party (socialist leaning), would have gotten around 42% of the vote. Higher than what they would score among the general populace (about 4/3 as high), but nowhere near as severe as the discrepancy for SV.
I'd also like to point out that your claim of FRP having "almost no support among educated groups" is misleading at best. It's true that their appeal is higher among groups with lower education, but statistics show that the demographics of AP voters and FRP voters are surprisingly similar (Valgundersøkelsen 2001), so that'd leave you in a tough spot to explain the over-representation of AP voters among journalists.
OK, enough Norway for now!