News Shows: White Men's Realm

Study documents lack of diversity on Sunday programs.

Noting how men now outnumber women by roughly 4 to 1 in the Media Matters study, Gloria Felt, a board member of the Women's Media Center, said that the homogeneity of these shows contributes to the polarization of the nation's political debate. "People are either on one extreme side of an issue or another. To many women, that kind of discussion is a turn-off. They tend to see issues as more nuanced, to see that there are many sides to an issue." Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.2
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The ethnic and sexual disparity is presented. The disparity in the selection of guests acording to political viewpoint is avoided. The tendancy of corporate media to require two virulent neocons on a show for every liberal, and requiring that the liberal be soft-spoken and look like a nerd, ... that feature is not mentioned. Even Fox could populate their shows with right wing idealogues who are black, female, hispanic, asian, or malaysian and still not have a vibrant political spectrum of the people of this country. The story is good, but not broad enough.

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