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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudy: Sunday Talk Shows Have Conservative, White, Male Skew
A new study by the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, or FAIR, has found the television network Sunday morning news shows have a distinct conservative, white and male skew. During a recent eight-month period, 70 percent of partisan-affiliated guests given one-on-one interviews were Republican, 86 percent were male, and 92 percent were white.
(from Amy's headlines this morning)
Right and Early
Sunday morning shows are GOP TV
By Peter Hart
If the Sunday morning TV chat shows seem like a sea of Republican politicians and conservative spinners lately, its not your imagination.
While you might expect to see a lot of Republican candidates and their surrogates in the thick of a Republican primary contest, the four Sunday morning talk showsABCs This Week, NBCs Meet the Press, CBSs Face the Nation and Fox News Sundayhave been extraordinarily friendly terrain for the right, as a new FAIR study documents.
Evaluating the guest lists for the eight months from June 2011 through February 2012, FAIR found a distinct conservative skew in both one-on-one interview segments and roundtable discussions.
On November 6, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer introduced his show as featuring a cross-section of Republicansturning the discussion over to surrogates for Republican presidential candidates and various party operatives.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4514
Initech
(100,099 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)laid out their clothes and brought the car around.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Never have been. Same group that hated Al Gore imo, still making billions by pretending to be pundits. Greatest scam ever invented - to pretend to tell the truth.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)not that I agree with it. I don't watch those silly shows anyway. The shows also show the media bending over for the conservative lobby. Kind of like society...
KG
(28,752 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)those numbers are nonetheless jaw-dropping.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)nt
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)If one were to look at Faux or the Conservative Neolib 'Bagger Channel, that'd be every DAY.
It's pretty pathetic when the other side constantly cries "Liberal Media!!!" while glossing over the fact that the RNC has two proven dedicated propaganda arms.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)they let raygun steal the 1980 election.
ananda
(28,874 posts)I'm in the slow process of weaning myself off of tv... just as I did with big banks.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)but it's all indy shows. More work to find but worth it.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I like one day free of newsy/commentary irritants.