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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher Nails it! [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)You do realize that to be on the Sunday shows, you have to be invited onto the Sunday shows yes? If you don't get asked or accepted then you don't have a platform.
Here are two different metrics showing the rightward lean of appearances on the talk shows. The first shows that while Democrats had full control of the Congress and Administration, all shows except Meet the Press had more Republicans on and Meet the Press itself still had more centrist Democratic politicians on than left leaning.
https://fair.org/extra/right-wing-tilt-on-sunday-morning/
This second one is from On the Issues and shows the number of appearances by 2016 Presidential hopefuls on media. Bernie Sanders, we can agree is left leaning was the most prolific from the left with 35 appearances. However, look at the list of Republican or right leaning politicians at least 3 of them have double the appearances.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016_Hopefuls.htm
How, other than bashing Democratic politicians for not being on media, do you propose to resolve this issue. Should we force these privately owned, independent media organizations to have more Democrats on? How can we accomplish that?