These days, television news broadcasts, whether they be during the morning, day or night, have a large audience who is interested in everything from local current events and national politics. The topics discussed change from day to day but I noticed recently that the people delivering the news and the guests featured on the shows are mostly white men. It seems like over and over we continue to see the same white males delivering our news and there are recent studies that do prove this. According to this article a recent study found that a majority of nightly news guests were overwhelmingly white males. Women, African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color are underrepresented as news guests in most news shows. Cable news was the worst of other channels, where they had the largest amount of white guests relative to other minorities, 83% to be specific. Other news channels such as MSNBC and CNN did have a bit more diversity, but overall still featured a vast majority of white males than women and other minorities. Considering their representation in the US population, men are greatly overrepresented on cable news by double! However, when it comes to white women, and nonwhite men, and nonwhite women, they are vastly underrepresented in cable news compared to their representation in the US population. These statistics clearly demonstrate that there is something off with the type of people being featured on news channels. As long as white men are a majority on the news, they will continue to put out patriarchal and racist messages to the United States and hinder our progress as a nation. We need to get more women and minorities on the news in order to promote equal rights and representation for all!
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