If you could line up a roster of the hosts of cable television programs from end to end, it would be a pretty non-diverse group, but I think high-end media in this country is pretty white-male dominated just like a lot of other power receptors. But it’s not a static thing. And I think that it actually does matter that—Amen—we had this long, interesting, raving extravaganza of a Democratic primary this year with a white woman and a black man as the two major contenders. I think that it created sort of an affirmative-action impulse for pundits, which has been great.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Rachel Maddow
I have an interview over at Campus Progress with pundit-extraordinaire Rachel Maddow (Give her own show already!) Check it out:
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