White males rule Sunday news shows
December 15, 2008
With David Gregory now hosting NBC's "Meet the Press," Sunday morning talk shows continue to be nearly all white men. Roughly 80 percent of the newsmakers and pundits who have appeared on the shows over the past eight years have been white men, according to an ongoing study by the liberal think tank Media Matters for America. The study found those percentages hardly changed in 2008, even as an African American and a woman battled for the Democratic presidential nomination, a woman was on the Republican ticket, and the political landscape was reshaped by the increased participation of African Americans, Latinos, and online activists and journalists.
White males rule Sunday news shows