Media Matters conducted a detailed study of guest appearances in 2014 on five Sunday morning political talk shows that often set the media and political agenda for the week: ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CBS' Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, NBC's Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, and CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley.
Large disparities in diversity were evident in the appearances on the shows last year.
Media Matters wrote, "White men were the largest proportion of all guests on all shows. The proportion of white men was prominent on all four broadcast network shows and CNN: 67 percent of guests on Face the Nation were white men, 65 percent on Fox News Sunday, 59 percent on Meet the Press and This Week, and 55 percent on State of the Union. By contrast, white men make up only 32 percent of the general population, according to data from the U.S. Census.
Compared to Census data, white women were underrepresented on all five Sunday shows. African-American women, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Middle Eastern guests were hosted extremely infrequently. In fact, Fox News Sunday hosted a single African-American woman the entire year and not one Latina, Face the Nation hosted a single Latina all year, and Fox News Sunday was the only show to host any Middle Eastern women -- a single one at that."
Here's a few graphs listed from the study:
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