I've been posting about media bias for years, and unfortunately, I have been proved correct, thankyouverymuch. Apparently, Democrats aren't as entertaining as right wing nut jobs Republicans, or to put it another way, they don't pull in the Sunday morning ratings.
You'd think that since there is a Democratic president and a slightly Dem heavy Senate, there would be a few more Democratic guests on cable news [sic] shows. Nah. When GW Bush was in the White House, there were GOP guests galore. When President Obama was elected, there should have been an increase in Democratic ones, but no such luck.
This seems pretty typical:
Please link over to Think Progress for more:
According to a new analysis of shows like Meet the Press from Roll Call, Republican lawmakers appeared nearly twice as often as Democratic ones last year, and held a smaller advantage in previous years:
In 2009 and 2010, Republican Members held a small advantage over Democratic Members in appearances on these programs, getting 52 percent of the invites in both years. [...]
But in 2011, the GOP lawmakers captured 64 percent of the Congressional appearances on the five shows that Roll Call tracks, and every network featured more Republican lawmakers than Democrats. Of 330 Congressional appearances tallied by Roll Call last year, 210 went to Republicans and only 120 went to Democrats — fewer if you subtract the eight appearances made by Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent who caucuses with Democrats.
And we wonder why so many voters are uninformed and/or misinformed. Unfair and unbalanced.
As I say in every Media Bias Sunday post, librul media my ass.
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