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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Are You on the Nightline Guest List? The media watch group FAIR is issuing the results of its exhaustive study: "ARE YOU ON THE NIGHTLINE GUEST LIST ? – An analysis of 40 months of Nightline programming." The 45-page report concludes that one's likelihood of appearing on Nightline's guest list is enhanced by being a white, male member of the government, military or corporate establishment. The study found that certain public interest viewpoints (peace movement, consumer rights, labor, etc.) were hardly visible on Nightline. "The narrow range of guests," the report asserts, "makes Nightline a fundamentally conservative political program." The study was conducted for FAIR by William Hoynes and David Croteau of the Boston College Sociology Department, and underwritten by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the J. Rodderick MacArthur Foundation. Research was based on an analysis of all Nightline transcripts for a forty month period (January 1, 1985 to April 30, 1988), totaling 865 programs and 2,498 invited guests. Among the findings were: Most frequent guests The top four were Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig (14 appearances each), Elliot Abrams and Jerry Falwell (12 appearances). Of Nightline's top U.S. guests (more than 5 appearances), all 19 are men, all but two are white, and 13 of the 19 are conservatives, most of whom were associated with the Reagan administration. Strong critics of U.S. foreign policy are usually foreigners (Soviets, Iranians, Nicaraguans, etc.), not U.S. critics. Elites To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2008 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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