much, actually, as african-americans. you don t see the same number of hispanics, say, in the afternoon anchor slots. you don t see asian-americans. you don t see native americans. so when we talk about diversity, i think it s also a larger discussion. but just to clarify, you were a cnn contributor. yes, i was. amy. and now you re not. go ahead, carole. i wanted to tell amy that rick sanchez, who is cuban, is does his show in the afternoon, i guess 3:00 to 4:00, something, and he s doing double duty now that campbell brown is leaving. so he s going to be on at 8:00 at night. did they need to use rick sanchez twice a day instead of picking don lemon or t.j. holmes to do it? they also had roland martin sub in when campbell brown was out on maternity leave. he s african-american. so he had the same job that rick sanchez has right now. but i would say that cnn, my former right. as is rick sanchez. i think those are comparable
the public already distrusts the media they feel the media is liberally biassed and this story underscores that stereotype again, these were mostly liberal commentators. knees were liberals. they were out of the closet liberals. i ve got to blow the whistle. how about the politico matt lewis, jaoan walsh, jan hall, sorry, we re out of time. coming up in the second half of reliable sources, minorities in the media. why are the anchors and primetime cable news hosts white journalists? former abc news anchor carole simpson joins a very pointed discussion. bob schieffer on daniel schorr. and later, espn thrown for a loss in that lebron james controversy. and i respond to bill o reilly. . which lets troy reiners, manager of nebraska s child support payment center, put money into pre-paid visa accounts for just a penny. instead of mailing out checks for 59 cents each.
their bosses did not want them speaking out in public. look at the people who have gotten the latest primetime hosting jobs in cable news. lawrence o donnell on msnbc. eliot spitzer and kathleen parker at cnn. they join people like sean and keith and bill and raich sxl anderson. they join the sunday hosts and principal network morning hosts. not an african-american face among them except for gma s robin roberts. there are some successful black journalists in television. lester holt. gwen i fel. byron pitts. joining us to talk about why this is and when it might change in boston carole simpson, a correspondent and anchor for abc news for 24 years. in tampa eric deggans, television and media critic for the st. petersburg times. and in new york amy holmes, the co-host of america s morning news. carole simpson, when you look back at your own pretty successful career, were there times you felt that race was an
should get the issue in this country i don t think we should get a pass to talk about i m not giving her a pass. but i think the idea that she shouldn t be able to say fox or breitbart is race sift preposterous. she gets to say that because it s true and because from her vantage point it s especially true. in fairness, it s certainly debatable. i ve got to get a break here. when we come back, leaked e-mails show liberal commentators trying out their attack lines against john mccain and sarah palin. were they following the same talking points in and later, carole simpson on why so few african-americans get the biggest jobs in television. when i grow up, i want to fix up old houses.
showed liberal commentators planning to savage sarah palin and play down the jeremiah wright controversy during the presidential campaign. is there a vast left-wing conspiracy? it s a sensitive subject for the news business. why are virtually all the top network anchor jobs and sunday morning jobs and primetime cable hosting jobs filled by white journalists? a candid conversation with carole simpson and other african-americans about race and the media. and plus, the passing of daniel schorr. bob schieffer helps us remember the man who openly courted controversy for seven decades. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it wasn t fox news that cost shirley sherrod her job. it was the scary specter of glenn beck. the number two agriculture official telling sherrod this week that she had to quit because her story, or more precisely a maliciously edited