Sunday TV: Not John Fund again!

No, liberals, it's not your imagination. "Meet the Press" and the other Sunday political talk shows really have leaned more to the right in recent years. At Media Matters for America, we looked at every one of the 7,000 guests who appeared on the three major Sunday shows from 1997 through 2005—Bill Clinton's second term, George W. Bush's first term, and the last year. We found that the left has of late found itself outnumbered, in some ways substantially, on the television shows that define the Washington conventional wisdom. Liberals are already a disturbingly rare species among what Calvin Trillin refers to as the "Sabbath Gasbags." And in some debates—the war in Iraq, for example—they are in danger of becoming extinct.-- Paul Waldman in the Washington Monthly.

The breakdown shows a 58-42% advantage for conservatives over progressives in 2005.

If Media Matters for America were to take a look at the Sunday lineups on so-called local affairs shows in the Milwaukee TV market, it would probably be 85-15.