🧵 NEW: Our team analyzed all 816 guests on five Sunday Shows in 2021.
What was our main finding?
Sunday Shows do not inform the public! Most guests are politicians, few are experts, and topics are limited.
Our full research report is available at: MediaAndDemocracyProject.org/sundayshows
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What was our main finding?
Sunday Shows do not inform the public! Most guests are politicians, few are experts, and topics are limited.
Our full research report is available at: MediaAndDemocracyProject.org/sundayshows
1/6
Why don't viewers learn anything from the Sunday Shows?
Over 50% of all guests—across all 5 shows we reviewed—are politicians, not experts.
Discussions focus on the political process instead of expert input on topics of major importance that Americans need to learn about.
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Over 50% of all guests—across all 5 shows we reviewed—are politicians, not experts.
Discussions focus on the political process instead of expert input on topics of major importance that Americans need to learn about.
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Our analysis finds that in 2021, Sunday “news” Shows ignored:
-Climate
-Education
-Civil rights
-Voting rights
-Drug policy
-Judiciary
-Gun control
-Immigration
-Insurrection
Yet somehow Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson was hosted 19 times—8 more times than climate experts!
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-Climate
-Education
-Civil rights
-Voting rights
-Drug policy
-Judiciary
-Gun control
-Immigration
-Insurrection
Yet somehow Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson was hosted 19 times—8 more times than climate experts!
3/6
In 2021 @ThisWeekABC @CNNSotu @MeetThePress @FoxNewsSunday @FaceTheNation made the CHOICE to platform those willing to lie to overthrow the US government.
7% of all guests supported the coup attempt by spreading the #BigLie.
ZERO guest experts on coups or authoritarianism.
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7% of all guests supported the coup attempt by spreading the #BigLie.
ZERO guest experts on coups or authoritarianism.
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The Sunday Shows were wildly unrepresentative in 2021. 19% of the U.S. population is Hispanic, but only 3% of Sunday Show guests were Hispanic.
White men make up 30% of the US population. They were 64% of all guests in 2021.
Nearly 90% of Meet The Press guests were white.
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White men make up 30% of the US population. They were 64% of all guests in 2021.
Nearly 90% of Meet The Press guests were white.
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Our democracy cannot afford the Sunday Shows’ choice to avoid substance and diversity.
As agenda-setters, the Sunday Shows @ThisWeekABC @CNNSotu @MeetThePress @FoxNewsSunday @FaceTheNation must do better.
Full report (with summary) available at:
MediaAndDemocracyProject.org/sundayshows
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As agenda-setters, the Sunday Shows @ThisWeekABC @CNNSotu @MeetThePress @FoxNewsSunday @FaceTheNation must do better.
Full report (with summary) available at:
MediaAndDemocracyProject.org/sundayshows
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