White Men Are Everywhere

[Jesus Malverde]

White males dominate Sunday political talk shows. But the overrepresentation does not end there.
White dudes are all over your television. Their faces stare up at you from newspapers and homepages. They abound in U.S. politics. They are legion.

And they're definitely on all of your Sunday morning political talk shows. According to a new study from Media Matters, white men made up the majority of guests on every major Sunday show in 2013.

They made up 60 percent of guests on This Week, 67 percent on Face the Nation, 67 percent on Fox News Sunday, 62 percent on Meet the Press, and 54 percent on State of the Union. On MSNBC's two Sunday morning shows, Up and Melissa Harris-Perry, white men weren't a majority, but still a plurality of all guests (42 percent and 27 percent of guests, respectively).

That's a lot of white guys, and it's not at all representative of the overall U.S. population, of which white men make up just 31 percent, according to the most recent Census data. But this massive overrepresentation isn't just on TV. It's the bedrock of the U.S. political class.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/white-men-are-everywhere-20140131

[Laelth]

1. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[upaloopa]

2. The end of the article is important. People have to run for office

and get elected to be on political talk shows as a polititicion. So let's go minorities and women run for office and get elected also vote for minorities and women then we can get rid of all those mean old self serving white guys!

[pscot]

3. I'm more concerned about ideology of empire

than I am about gender or skin color. And the uniformity of militaristic, free market corporatism in all media is a lot more troubling than who delivers the message.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. I'm more concerned about "culture" of empire

Seems everything in the united states revolves around the east coast corridor. Starting with an outsized impact of the universities especially Harvard and Yale.

For once I'd like to see a president who does not come from that culture.

For a country of three hundred million to have produced political "opponents" who both happen to be members of the same Yale secret society seems like a symptom of a broken system.

[LooseWilly]

5. Not sure it's possible to separate one from the other

It seems to be just an international vs. domestic distinction you're trying to make. Outward directed "ideology of empire" vs. inward directed.

Seems kind of like fixating on the issue of what happens when a coin comes up heads, but ignoring when it comes up tails. Maybe the focus should be on the tossing of the coin that is the root cause of heads or tails...

[Skittles]

6. it's a man's world

and hoo BOY does it show

[RainDog]

7. I turned off my TV

because I don't need to hear rich, conservative, white guys telling me how the rest of the world should behave.

[Scuba]

8. Wow, I can't imagine why that's the case ....

... or can I?