# Why doesn't Fox News have any Black Anchors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216 "2012-11-26T23:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/1 "2012-11-26T23:56:42Z")
This is a serious questions. Why? If they are Fair and Balanced wouldn’t they want a news force representative of that? Also, do they have any other minority anchors other than Rivera? source: > **[blackmediascoop.com - blackmediascoop Resources and Information.](http://ww1.blackmediascoop.com/2011/12/06/exclusive-cnn-loses-another-black-anchor/?usid=20&utid=16046792170)** > > blackmediascoop.com is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, blackmediascoop.com has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for! > [@](#): > > BLACK ANCHORS on CABLE NEWS > > FOX 0 WEEKDAY ANCHOR 0 WEEKEND ANCHOR > MSNBC 2 WEEKDAY ANCHORS 0 WEEKEND ANCHORS > CNN 1 WEEKDAY ANCHOR 3 WEEKEND ANCHORS (SOON TO BE 2 WHEN T.J. LEAVES) > (Jan. CNN will have 2 Weekday anchors w/Soledad) > > FOX News does not have any blacks anchoring their newscasts during the weekday or weekends. MSNBC has 3 African Americans during the week and Al Sharpton is the NOT in primetime. His show kicks off at 6pm. Primetime is considered 8pm – 11pm. MSNBC has no African Americans on the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/2 "2012-11-27T00:03:44Z")
Is it impossible for a news channel to be fair and balanced unless their anchors represent the demographics of the country? Fox is not fair or balanced, and using race as a basis for selecting their on air personnel won’t change that. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/3 "2012-11-27T00:05:49Z")
Is this the Pit? No? OK, let me just think about your question… Hmmmmm… I wonder why that might be…? Hmm. Is that true? Because that would surely be suspicious. Hmmmm, I’m thinking of a reason, but until this appears in the Pit, I’d better bite my tongue. P.S. Watching Fox News hurts my brain, so I don’t do it. Are you SURE there are no Black anchors? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/4 "2012-11-27T00:08:08Z")
Might speak volumes for the professionalism of black anchorites. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/5 "2012-11-27T00:08:33Z")
Because its hard to find blonde black people, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![1step4word](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/cc9497/32.png) [@1step4word](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1step4word)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/6 "2012-11-27T00:15:22Z")
What about Arthel Neville, she was on yesterday afternoon. [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d](http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d) Arthel Neville currently serves as a co-host for “FOX & Friends First.” Presented weekdays at 5 AM/ET, the program is an hour-long expansion of “FOX & Friends” and is anchored by a pair of rotating hosts. Additionally, Neville anchors the weekend newscast, “America’s News Headquarters,” (Saturday, 4-7 PM/ET) and is a weekly Read more: [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d#ixzz2GCswgqXS](http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d#ixzz2GCswgqXS) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/7 "2012-11-27T00:15:49Z")
I’m hardly a fan of Fox News, but IMO this is not a racial thing, even if valid conclusions could be drawn from such a small sample size. I guarantee you that if they had an opening, Fox would give a show to Allen West or Clarence Thomas or Condoleezza Rice. Heck, they would MAKE an opening for either of the latter two. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/8 "2012-11-27T00:18:52Z")
> [@1step4word](#): > > What about Arthel Neville, she was on yesterday afternoon. > [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d](http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d) > > Arthel Neville currently serves as a co-host for “FOX & Friends First.” Presented weekdays at 5 AM/ET, the program is an hour-long expansion of “FOX & Friends” and is anchored by a pair of rotating hosts. Additionally, Neville anchors the weekend newscast, “America’s News Headquarters,” (Saturday, 4-7 PM/ET) and is a weekly > > Read more: [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d#ixzz2GCswgqXS](http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/arthel-neville/bio/#s=a-d#ixzz2GCswgqXS) I stand corrected! Perhaps my cite was misinformed or intentionally misleading? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/9 "2012-11-27T00:19:35Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I guarantee you that if they had an opening, Fox would give a show to Allen West or Clarence Thomas or Condoleezza Rice. I just assumed that Herman Caine had a show on FOX already. Seems to be a weird flaw in my understanding of the Universe that it isn’t so. ---
**Author:** ![Paige\_Turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Paige\_Turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paige_Turner)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/10 "2012-11-27T00:46:00Z")
Maybe your cite’s just out of date? Another thing it’s wrong about is zero African American anchors on MSNBC on the weekends. Melissa Harris-Perry hosts a 2 hour show Saturday and Sunday, but her show is (I think) less than a year old. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/11 "2012-11-27T00:51:56Z")
I can understand [del]a black[/del] anyone not wanting to work there. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/12 "2012-11-27T00:57:24Z")
> [@Paige\_Turner](#): > > Maybe your cite’s just out of date? Another thing it’s wrong about is zero African American anchors on MSNBC on the weekends. Melissa Harris-Perry hosts a 2 hour show Saturday and Sunday, but her show is (I think) less than a year old. my cite says 2011 and the bio says she started in 2010, so I am guessing the cite isn’t counting her since she is not a full-time regular anchor and listed as a contributor or rotating anchor, which is slightly misleading ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/13 "2012-11-27T01:29:28Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I can understand [del]a black[/del] anyone not wanting to work there. Honestly, I never noticed race, but I was freaked by how much they either looked like reanimated nursing home corpses or rubber-faced Dick Tracy goons. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/14 "2012-11-27T16:40:44Z")
Keep in mind, shows like “Fox and Friends” and the vast majority of their programming has been weaseled by the network itself as “not news”. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. is allegedly when the news is on, so anything from 4-6pm (Used to be Glenn Beck, not sure what it is now) and anything after 8pm is supposedly editorial and not to be confused with News. This, of course, is from 2010, so I’m not sure what their official position is. I didn’t watch it, but I understand on election night all objectivity pretty much disappeared. I wish I had seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/15 "2012-11-27T16:50:39Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > but until this appears in the Pit, I’d better bite my tongue. Why? You can cuss all you like outside the Pit, as long as it isn’t directed at another Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/16 "2012-11-27T17:20:15Z")
It’s scary enough having a black president! ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/17 "2012-11-27T23:10:50Z")
> **[Harris Faulkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Faulkner)** > > Harris Kimberley Faulkner (born October 13, 1965) is an American conservative newscaster and television host who joined the Fox News Channel in 2005. She anchors The Faulkner Focus, a daily daytime show, and hosts Outnumbered. Additionally, she hosts her own primetime political franchise called Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner. She has received six Emmy Awards, including the 2005 Upper Midwest Emmy Awards for Best Newscaster (nominee) and Best News Special (recipient). > Faulkner was born on... There this pretty lady, as well. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/18 "2012-11-27T23:48:02Z")
Anchors are designed to drag through the muck and stop you there. Maybe all the black anchors they tried out didn’t catch the seafloor very well and didn’t rake through the muck very well. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/19 "2012-11-28T00:23:24Z")
Even if we accept the numbers from your source as true, it’s not like those are exactly glowing reviews of the diversity at the other stations. A whole ONE colored person on the air? Slow down that progress train, CNN, it’s moving too fast for me! ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/20 "2012-11-28T01:31:19Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Even if we accept the numbers from your source as true, it’s not like those are exactly glowing reviews of the diversity at the other stations. A whole ONE colored person on the air? Slow down that progress train, CNN, it’s moving too fast for me! That actually did make me laugh out loud. Kudos, Diosa! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216.md?page=2)