Report: Few minorities on U.S. news talk shows - Race & Ethnicity - MSNBC.com: WASHINGTON - The influential Sunday news talk shows aired by U.S. television networks are overwhelmingly dominated by white men, with women, blacks and Latinos having little presence, a liberal media watchdog said Monday.
About one in five guests on the programs was female, said the group, Media Matters for America, which studied four network Sunday news talk shows over a two-year period.
Blacks made up about 7 percent of those appearing on most of the programs, while Latinos made up about 1 percent, Media Matters said. In all, about seven out of every eight guests in 2005 and 2006 were white, the group said.
