REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Dem Lawmakers By Almost 2 To 1 In Cable News Stimulus Debate Again»

[tishaLA]

Last week, ThinkProgress released a report showing that, in the debate over the House economic recovery bill on the five cable news networks, Republican members of Congress outnumbered their Democratic counterparts by a ratio of 2 to 1. The analysis tallied interview segments about the stimulus on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during a three-day period, finding that the networks had hosted Republican lawmakers 51 times and Democratic lawmakers only 26 times.

The economic recovery package passed the House last week with zero Republican votes, shifting the focus to the Senate. Though the venue has changed, the debate on cable has not improved much.

In a new analysis, ThinkProgress has found that Republican lawmakers outnumbered Democratic lawmakers 75 to 41 on cable news interviews by members of Congress (from 6am on Monday 2/2 through 11pm on Thursday 2/5):

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[librechik]

1. I don't know whether to post MAKE THEM CHANGE or

damn--we'll never make them change.

[FreakinDJ]

2. No we can't have a Fairness Doctrine

and I'm sick of Propaganda

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. We got Obama elected with a movement from coast to coast....

Why on earth can't we do the same thing with the MSM and force them to stop their Republican propaganda?

[nichomachus]

4. Corporations want to middle class to collapse

The cable channels, in fact all media, are owned by corporations.

What is so hard to understand here?

[KoKo]

5. K&R!

[tishaLA]

6. ...

:kick:

[KoKo]

7. Amazing...Doesn't this say it ALL ...about WHY "Media Reform" back to People needs to be done?

:shrug:

[KoKo]

8. ....

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Not much better on NPR, either. nt