What do you suppose they’ll do, put a sign up in the NBC commissary that says “Black Folk Needed For Sunday Morning Shows” next to last months “Fried Chicken” sign?

“MTP deserves credit for, again, voicing its desire to increase the diversity on its show.”

Please.

How wonderful. But here’s a suggestion: just do it. Stop voicing your desire. Russert got it done a bit better, so what has happened since?

Funny how those racist, right wing, neanderthals at Fox News manage to, quietly, just get it done.

So the question is, if MTP deserves credit for voicing it desire for diversity, what does Fox News deserve?

Maybe Keith could answer.

It is just too sweet that NBC/MSNBC got taken to task over this. With Keith leading the way, and Chris and Rachel not too far behind, claiming everyone else in the world (the right world) is racist, the Dallas Tea Party ad that showed the “white MSNBC” and now the CBC complaining that the biggest race baiters lack racial balance NBC/MSNBC is going to make some changes. Maybe they should invite Mark Lamont Hill on, he is always excellent on O’Reilly. Maybe they should invite Charles Payne from FBN, who is also an excellent commentator.

How about some ideological diversity? I doubt NBC would invite someone like Charles Payne on. Listening to NBC anchors, you would think Charles is just imaginary.

As I started reading this post, I clicked for a new window, so that I could pull up my link to the Urban League report, but then I saw where you cited it in the text. To be honest, I’d really be hard-pressed to hazard a guess, as to who might have replaced Condaleeza Rice and Colin Powell at the top of the list, which probably makes the seemingly outdated report and its findings, all that more pertinent at this time.

@Fred Farrar

Fox News doesn’t have real” black people on their programs, silly. “Real” black people are Democrats, don’t you know that? This according to liberal commenters here at Mediaite.

In all seriousness….MSNBC could really learn from Fox. They look at people as people, not as colors. And the non-white guests aren’t just conservative or just liberal.

How many blacks work at Mediaite?

The one problem with this, is that a lot of those shows bring on Represenatives and Senators to talk. Since the Repubs don’t have any African Americans in Congress they’re kind of between a rock and a hard place. Repubs don’t seem to like to elect African Americans.

@Narutoboy

How many black news anchors do they have at Fox?

@ real john t

The discussion is over guests, contributors. Pay attention. And did you even read what I wrote? I don’t want either network to be in the business of filling racial quotas. I want them to focus not just on color, but on getting guests with ideological differences, which Fox does extremely well.

It’s not real diversity unless diverse views are expressed on the airwaves. How pathetic that neither NBC, nor its critics, understand this. You could have people on TV every color of the rainbow, but if they just act as official spokespersons for the party in power, this symbolic diversity is a sham.

“The discussion is over guests, contributors.”,?
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Then why did you ask this Azarkhan?
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“How many blacks work at Mediaite?”

@ real john t

You realize we are two separate people, right? I guess you meant to quote him.

But to answer your question, there are many. Working at Fox doesn’t just mean “anchors.” Harris Faulkner, a black anchor, routinely hosts segments and fills in on the Fox Report. Lots black people who work for Fox are contributors, Charles Payne being just one of them. As for other groups, like Hispanics, well, Geraldo and Julie Banderas hosts their own shows on Fox News.

I’m sorry, I guess Azarkhan asked that and Narutoboy said this “.The discussion is over guests, contributors.” Narrutoboy, why didn’t you correct Azarkhan?

The thing is MSnbc ‘has the room’ in their schedule to do a show with a minority anchor. the slot after
Maddow is a repeat and is getting killed by Foxnews anyway so what do they have to lose? I gotta
admit that all this quotaing is worrisome.

It is worrisome fidoohki; diversity is based only on skin color in the minds of way too many. MLK was thrown under the bus a long time ago by the liberal left.

TFT says.
“Maybe they should invite Charles Payne from FBN, who is also an excellent commentator.”

Payne is content competing in the modern world so he does not count. To gain diversity points one must hire a angry black person that does not sound white.

“MTP deserves credit for, again, voicing its desire to increase the diversity on its show.”

Is that like a free pass?

You are right Moderate, my suggestion of Payne was pretty much tongue in cheek. Black conservative, successful individuals don’t count in the world of mainstream media “diversity”. Mainstream media only wants liberal, angry “people of color” who will rail against the white man.

“To gain diversity points one must hire a angry black person that does not sound white.”

That’s ridiculous. A diversity of voices on Sunday morning shows means a a variety of viewpoints and perspectives. African American panelists and journalists, for instance, are more likely to raise issues and concerns that African Americans have. There’s arguably much more ideological diversity on Sunday morning than there is racial diversity.

Olbermann’s “lost it”? Please. He’s got more, under trying circumstances, than Abrams or Fox ever had or will have. You can tell how much of a raw nerve Keith’s truth-telling commentary hits by the venomous, teeth-gnashing reactions he generates.

This episode is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to divert attention to the salient point Keith made about the utter lack of diversity, percentage-wise, among participants in Tea Party activities and Republicans in general. We’re talking about thousands and millions of people respectively. To attempt to rebut by howling about a few news anchors–not that there isn’t a point, however comparatively miniscule–is as laughable as it is disgraceful.

Just don’t invite:

“Is Maxine Waters Really As Dumb As She Seems?”

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/25/business/econwatch/entry6241870.shtml

PS: Yes

@real john t:
Then why did you ask this Azarkhan?
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“How many blacks work at Mediaite?”

Because dumb ass, if you are going to be liberal and impose reverse discrimination and blame the worlds problems on white racism-

Then practice what you preach. And furthermore, no matter how many minorities work at Mediaite, why aren’t there more??

Fox news is much more diverse than MSNBC. Anchors include Harris Faulkner (a black woman) and Julie Banderas. (Latino) Juan Williams is a regular contributor. There’s also much more diversity of opinion. On the Fox opinion shows, O’Reilly has had on members of Code Pink, the Black Panthers, and John Stewart was recently a guest. Marc Lamont Hill is a regular on O’Reilly’s show, and Dick Morris, a frequent guest, worked for Bill Clinton. Gretta van Susteren is a Democrat, and her husband worked for Clinton. Sean Hannity has interviewed Rev. Wright and Michael Moore. Ultra-left Bob Beckel is a regular on Hannity’s show. Still, the left keeps throwing it out there that Fox is the biased one. Go look for opposing opinions on Olbermann’s show.

“Dick Morris, a frequent guest, worked for Bill Clinton.”

Yes he did, then Clinton fired him and now all he does is bash the Clintons and the left.

“Gretta van Susteren is a Democrat, and her husband worked for Clinton.”

I’d hardly call Greta a Democrat. Now her husband is advising Sarah Palin.

Splitting hairs. All the rest of it still applies. You won’t see near the diversity of opinion on MSNBC that you see on Fox.

Ed Shultz has people on from the left and the right, Chris Matthews has people on from the left and the right as does Maddow. If you’re going to compare Fox to MSNBC, why not compare the other shows and not just Olbermann”s show.

Political diversity is one of the goals mentioned by the NBC spokesperson, but it’s not the type of diversity that was questioned by the members of Congress, the National Urban League and the bulk of the post.

Great question about Mediaite…How many Black Folks were at Mediaite??

real john, my main point is that so many of our left wing posters keep saying there’s no diversity on Fox. It’s a lie. There’s as much, if not more, than on MSNBC. In clarification, I like to use Olbermann as an example of the extreme far left. He’s still as bitter and angry with Obama and the Dems in control as he was when Bush was in office. He’s a heart attack waiting to happen.

Well, I guess MTP will get a gold star for this morning, they had a black man on the panel. But from what I saw, there was no diversity of thought, David and his guests were all pushing Obamacare, except the one conservative congressman who was barely allowed to speak. David interrupted him time and time again and never asked him to rebut what the others were saying, even though he allowed every panel member to rebut what Cantor was saying.

MTP, despite the fact that it still gets the best ratings on Sunday mornings, as a whole is a waste of time. It has become a joke with David at the helm. Just another democrat political hack posing as a journalist.

Yes, but FNC discriminates too. Ever see dumb, ugly woman like Andrea Mitchell, Contessa Brewer or Rachel Maddow on Fox?

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