[IP] HOW PUBLIC IS PUBLIC RADIO?: A STUDY OF NPR'S GUESTLIST
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 28, 2004 8:44:59 AM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] HOW PUBLIC IS PUBLIC RADIO?: A STUDY OF NPR'S
GUESTLIST
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HOW PUBLIC IS PUBLIC RADIO?: A STUDY OF NPR'S GUESTLIST
National Public Radio, though founded as an alternative media outlet
that
would "speak with many voices," relies on largely the same range of
sources
that dominate mainstream commercial news, a new FAIR study has
found. Characterized by conservative critics as "liberal" radio, NPR
has
more Republican than Democratic voices, and male sources outnumber
female
sources by nearly four to one. Nine of the top 10 most-frequently used
sources on NPR were white male
government officials. (Secretary of State Colin Powell was the one
exception.) The top seven sources were all Republicans. FAIR's study
looked
at every on-air source quoted in June 2003 on NPR's four main news
shows:
All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday and
Weekend Edition Sunday. Think tank sources and regular commentators were
analyzed over a four-month period. Results were compared to those from a
1993 FAIR study of NPR sources.
[SOURCE: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, AUTHORS: Steve Rendall and
Daniel Butterworth]
<http://www.fair.org/extra/0405/npr-study.html>
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