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CreekDog

(46,192 posts) Tue May 26, 2015, 11:26 PM May 2015

Are the Sunday morning network interview shows an example of white and male privilege? [View all]

CBS: Bob Scheiffer's replacement, John Dickerson, seems the a capable journalist but yet another white male

NBC: Chuck Todd, preceded by many white males

ABC: George Stephanopolous and preceded by all white males except for Cokie Roberts "co-host" stints.

If you never pick a female or someone who isn't white, what are we to assume except that being a white male is one of the qualifying criteria?

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Are the Sunday morning network interview shows an example of white and male privilege? [View all] CreekDog May 2015 OP

But these guys are all the scumsucking bottomfeeder type. delrem May 2015 #1

Bob Scheiffer? CBGLuthier May 2015 #8

I stopped watching those Sunday morning turdballs 4 years ago. My blood pressure is no longer high. 4lbs May 2015 #2

No. You're probably imagining things. NYC_SKP May 2015 #3

Absolutely. nt Bonobo May 2015 #4

I thought those shows were test patterns olddots May 2015 #5

Nooe. You'd have to include an image of a Native American. Eleanors38 May 2015 #28

Yes, and so are the late night talk/comedy shows. Sheldon Cooper May 2015 #6

Chelsea Handler had a show for a few years, Arugula Latte May 2015 #27

Yes, she did. But I think she was on the E! network, which Sheldon Cooper May 2015 #29

What Female comdian has a high enough stature to get a job like that..... Joe the Revelator May 2015 #35

I guess a woman with the same 'stature' as Noah, Wilmore, and Corden. Sheldon Cooper May 2015 #36

There is a reason they are known as the Sabbath Gasbags Fumesucker May 2015 #7

Sunday morning shows are in need of diversity romanic May 2015 #9

Such paid propagandists must appear to be authority figures, that is why. bemildred May 2015 #10

They don't pick a lot of low-income commentators, either. Orrex May 2015 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Nye Bevan May 2015 #12

Well there are ways to test that theory el_bryanto May 2015 #13

Nye's wrong, here are the numbers: CreekDog May 2015 #20

Maybe. LWolf May 2015 #14

I don't blame you, and I don't watch them either CreekDog May 2015 #15

If I were a candidate, LWolf May 2015 #24

A vast majority don't even watch them though CreekDog May 2015 #25

Same here. Why subject yourself to all that lying? Paladin May 2015 #17

I really depends on the pipeline. aikoaiko May 2015 #16

as you say, there are plenty of women and people of color in the pipeline CreekDog May 2015 #18

If those women could draw the same viewers as the current staff Calista241 May 2015 #19

Wrong. That's not an acceptable explanation CreekDog May 2015 #21

I disagree. I think these corporations could give 2 shits about what race or sex some Calista241 May 2015 #22

What you are describing is illegal CreekDog May 2015 #30

Picking the best person (from a revenue point of view) for a job is illegal? Calista241 May 2015 #31

you aren't seriously defending the practice of hiring white people CreekDog May 2015 #33

I think people (you, me, other TV watchers) have gotten used to getting Sunday Calista241 May 2015 #34

Is Pope Francis Catholic? KamaAina May 2015 #23

Yep n/t JustAnotherGen May 2015 #26

I don't know anyone who watches them. hunter May 2015 #32