If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Republican White Men - image
An exhaustive new study by media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting shows that the Sunday morning talk shows have been dominated over the last eight months by white, Republican men.
Between June 2011 and February of this year, 70 percent of all one-on-one interviewees on the four biggest political talk shows NBCs Meet the Press, ABCs This Week, CBSs Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday were Republicans. The numbers were even more lopsided in favor of men and white guests:
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)So, basically almost HALF of the of the Women and African-American one-on-one interviews were snagged by REPUBLICANS Bachmann and Cain.
Grrr.
MADem
(135,425 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)I can't wait.
Finally, a reason to watch them vs. the better programming that is on opposite them (pro wrestling reruns from the 1950s)
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Keith Olbermann On ABCs This Week Roundtable This Sunday
Keith Olbermann will be part of the roundtable on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos this Sunday.
Joining Olbermann are George Will, Donna Brazile, Matt Dowd and Peggy Noonan.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/keith-olbermann-on-abcs-this-week-roundtable-this-weekend/
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,753 posts)mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)Thats who the audience of those shows want to see. The largest portion of the audience of those shows are republican white men.
Tv is about ratings and money. It they got higher ratings with women and minorities, they'd be the guests
klook
(12,131 posts)Too bad the networks and cable "news" outlets don't take their journalistic responsibility more seriously than that.
2banon
(7,321 posts)Anyone know if Think Progress has a dispute with fb? theyve' got all the other social network tags available..
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Here: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/04/19/467647/sunday-shows-white-men-gop/
way at the top right of the page there is a 'LIKE' button.
Is that it?
I've never shared on FB so I'm not sure if that is the right button.
2banon
(7,321 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)The Republican primary was pretty much the number one 'horse race' story in the time period examined. I'll bet the figure was a little bit lower four years ago.
As for the other two figures, many of the most prominent figures in our poltiical class are either white, male, or both.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)it certainly explains the 92% whiteness too
RZM
(8,556 posts)The House is 83 percent white, the Senate 96 percent. Combined they are roughly 85 percent white. That's not all that far from 92 percent.
The House and Senate are both 83 percent male. That's very close to 86 percent.
http://thisnation.com/congress-facts.html
While I don't have data for the punditocracy, they seem to me to be quite heavily white and male as well, especially the prominent ones who get invited to the talk shows.
Congresspeople and pundits are a pretty high percentage of the Sunday talk guests.
As for the Republican figure, again, I believe part of that has to do with the primaries being the big horse-race story in the period examined. Probably doesn't account for all of the discrepancy, but I imagine it accounts for some of it. All of the candidates made the rounds many times over.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)THis is why so much attention is being directed to deficit reduction over building the economy (the only way it really can be done - by reinvigorating the middle class) with deficit reduction not forgotten but not achieved at the expense of our economy and nation. In Sept of 2010 300 Economists and community leaders warned Obama to not sacrifice job creation and growth in the name of austerity and deficit reduction.
Corporate media is helping the Corporate Lobbyists in Congress to push cutting social programs and calling it 'dealing with the deficit'.
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