Talking heads who are female or black are apparently only knowledgeable about two things — women and blacks. At least, those are the only two topics cable news shows call on them to discuss. Watchdog group Media Matters studied news show guests on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN before, during, and after the height of the Imus controversy and found that a blacks were only invited to speak in significant numbers about the Imus controversy and other minorities and women were rarely seen at all. I wish I could have contacted Media Matters during the study to let them know that appearances by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the go-to black experts of cable news, should not have been counted. Remove them from the study, and I bet the already dismal numbers decrease by half.

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