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James Harris Jackson murdered a black man in NYC. The media focused on the criminal record of his victim, Timothy Caughman. It’s time we stop vilifying the victims.

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sunfoundation: “ Finally, comprehensive online television news archive by Internet Archive “ Yesterday, the folks at Internet Archive launched a robust online collection of more than 340,000 TV news programs from the past three years. The service,...
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Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.”

Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.”

Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.”

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This post is part of the GOOD community’s 50 Building Blocks of Citizenship. Follow along, join the discussion, and share your experience at #goodcitizen.

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