Sunday, September 21, 2014

SUNDAY SHOW FOLLOW-UP

I posted below about the ideological bias on the Sunday Talk Shows and wrote that I would do a little analysis on the guests who were not identified by party or ideology.  There were 150 guests I classified as either liberal or not conservative and they had a total of 1069 appearances.  Lumping in the "non-conservatives" with liberals does give the liberals a higher number even though some of these are definitely not liberal.  There were 90 I classified as conservative and they had a total of 552 appearances.

Here's the summary of guests who had 5 or more appearances broken down by number of guests in each category and total number of appearances.


KNOWN CONSERVATIVE 182 1,568

LIBERAL 28 265




ASSIGNED CONSERVATIVE 90 552

LIBERAL 150 1069












CONSERVATIVE 272 2120
LIBERAL 178 1334

Media Matters provides a summary of a NY Times analysis here.

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