HOW PUBLIC IS PUBLIC RADIO?: A STUDY OF NPR'S GUESTLIST

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: May 28, 2004 8:44:59 AM EDT
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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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