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According to blogger and artist Ed Lundart's non-scientific study, Who's On TV, which compares race and sex of guests with U.S Census population share percentages, The Daily Show has the most white guests of all shows surveyed; Lopez Tonight has the fewest of the late night shows. Moreover, The Daily Show has the fewest women guests of all of the late night shows surveyed. Thus, if you watch The Daily Show, you're more likely to see a white male guest.
The most diverse show in the survey is Lopez Tonight. In fact, you're more likely to see someone black on George Lopez' show than any other late night talk show program, according to Ed Lundart's study.
So what's the order look like? This, from most white to least white:
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
The Late Late Show (tie with Fallon)
The Late Show With David Letterman
Chelsea Lately (tie with Letterman)
The Tonight Show
Lopez Tonight
And when it comes to women, The Daily Show again comes up short, but so does Lopez Tonight. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has the best performance in having women guests, but not by much. In fact, all are below the U.S. Census mark for women as a percentage of the country's population. Here's the order from fewest women guests to most:
The Daily Show
Lopez Tonight
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Chelsea Lately
The Late Show With David Letterman
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
Here's what Ed Lundart ads about Chelsea Lately and Lopez Tonight:
Chelsea Lately is the only show to have more Asian guests than the census numbers would suggest. However, it's mostly the same couple of Asians featured repeatedly, as Chelsea Lately lists their rotating panel of comedians as guests along with their one interviewee. Lopez Tonight features more Hispanic guests than any of the other shows, but not by a very wide margin. Their black guests are more impressively numerous. Lopez Tonight is also the only talk show to feature fewer white people than the census data expectation.
No surprises here...The firing of Rick Sanchez by CNN is simply one more case of blunt racial discrimination. The US is not a color blind society and CNN is part of the problem.
ReplyDeletewhat a load of horse sh't this article is.. his guests are mostly politicians and/or authors there to plug a book.
ReplyDeleteas for sanchez, you morons, he was fired because he trashed his own employer on a radio show rant that lasted 45 minutes.
What happened to Oliver Stone is a good case study. The Wall Street Journal reported this past summer that Stone said that “public opinion was focused on the Holocaust because of ‘Jewish domination of the media.’” Stone also said that the Jews “stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f—– up United States foreign policy for years.”
ReplyDeleteLike so many others before him, Stone groveled: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry.”
How Jewish is Hollywood? That’s the question Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein asked two years ago just before Christmas. In answer, he wrote:
“When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.”
Needless to say, Stein was not fired for writing this, nor was he rebuked in the least. As we have seen time and again, there is a glaring double standard about alluding to Jewish power in the media. Jews are free to reference it, but woe unto the non-Jew who wades into those shark-infested waters.
The late Joe Sobran had this to say about Jewish media power:
“Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you. It’s a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism.”
In 1996, reprinted in the May 27th issue of the New York Times, by Ari Shavit, an Israeli columnist describing his feelings on the killings of a hundred civilians in a military skirmish in southern Lebanon. Shavit wrote, “We killed them out of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude that now, with the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own.”
Peace.
Michael Santomauro
ReporterNotebook@gmail.com
In reference to the comment by Anonymous that Sanchez was fired because he wasn't white, referring to him as person of color: You are suffering from massive ignorance and probably perceptual handicap. If Sanchez is not white, what the hell is he? This "Hispanic" government sponsored mythology is responsible for comments like that one. So-called "Hispanics" are not a race-- and Cuban-Americans are overwhelmingly white, even by American standards. You give someone a label that is usually pseudo-sceintifically associated with persons who are NOT white, and all of a sudden, people become blind and see a white person as brown, simply because he has a Spanish last name or proclaims himself a "Hispanic" to enhance his career. Learn something about pseudo-scientific myths, please! Sanchez was fired BECAUSE he wasn't brown. If he had been, many would have called out bloody murder. He was fired for offending his bosses in public. While eccentric, he was not stupid (another attempt to pin the crypto rascist label on him, a consequence of thinking of Latinos as inferior mentally), just imprudent.
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