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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: Study Finds National Public Radio Fails To Reflect Public A study of National Public Radio commissioned by FAIR indicates that public radio's leading news programs fail-- in reporting, analysis and commentary-- to reflect the diversity of the public. The study, conducted by Charlotte Ryan of the Boston College Media Research and Action Project, examined transcripts of all weekday broadcasts of All Things Considered and Morning Edition from September through December 1991. It focused on who gets heard on NPR as "newsmakers," analysts and commentators-- and who doesn't. The four-month study found that in selecting news sources, NPR titled toward government officials and representatives of establishment and conservative think tanks. Only 21 percent of NPR's sources were women-- just 3 percentage points more than FAIR found in a 1990 study of Nightline. WHITE MALE COMMENTATORS Even in selecting commentators, where NPR has more discretion than in choosing news sources, the program failed to "look like America." Only four of 27 "regular" commentators (those featured two or more times) were women-- 15 percent. Women did no commentaries on U.S. politics or economics, and only one commentary on international politics. Fully 26 out of 27 regular commentators were white. The sole exception, Lynda Barry, is half Filipina. Eighty-five percent of regular commentators were white males. "BELTWAY BIAS" To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2605 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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