# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/21 "2012-11-28T01:39:37Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > [Harris Faulkner - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Faulkner) > > There this pretty lady, as well. Harris is 47?! She’s wearing it well. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/22 "2012-11-28T07:38:55Z")
If I’m not mistaken, CBS News also has no black anchors, and ABC News only has one. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/23 "2012-11-28T17:06:18Z")
they are too smart. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/24 "2012-11-28T17:55:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Harris is 47?! She’s wearing it well. On the one hand: pretty! On the other hand, the comment about Norway in that link makes one wonder about her intelligence and/or intellectual integrity. But frankly, lack of diversity of news anchors is not high on my list of reasons why one shouldn’t watch FoxNews. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/25 "2012-11-29T00:48:04Z")
I want to see an interview with a conservative woman who really, really wanted a slot on Fox News – anywhere, any day, any time slot – who auditioned three times, maybe – and got rejected because she wasn’t young and attractive enough. I want to hear her complain bitterly about that, about how good her work experience, her conservative cred is, etc. Tell me the excuses they made, the lines they gave her. I want to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/26 "2012-11-29T03:38:32Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > **Why doesn’t Fox News have any Black Anchors?** For the same reason Romney was polled to have 0% black support? The Republicans and Fox are two parts of the same whole; it doesn’t make sense for someone to work for a group that hates them. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/27 "2012-11-29T03:50:13Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > 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. Good evening America, this is Steel Danforth bringing you the nightly… ---
**Author:** ![idideat12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@idideat12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idideat12)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/28 "2013-05-17T16:36:45Z")
Blacks are raised on welfare, in ghettos, trapped in union run schools (prisons), and told that its better for them and that republicans and foxnews are trying to keep them from getting more free stuff just because they are black. Some blacks are smart enough to think for themselves and realize its been the democratic policies of welfare, abortion, and unionized schools that is the new plantation. The black man has been beaten down and the reverends sharpton and jackson are laughing all the way to the rainbow bank. Try this for once. Maybe foxnews does not have any black anchors because no QUALIFIED blacks are applying for the job. If you call the black anchors on MSNBC “qualified”, you cannot recognize racial hires. Thank you affirmative action. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/29 "2013-05-17T16:43:40Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Might speak volumes for the professionalism of black anchorites. How has this racist BS gone unnoticed? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/30 "2013-05-17T16:45:08Z")
> [@idideat12](#): > > Thank you affirmative action. What sort of job did it help you get? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/31 "2013-05-17T17:04:33Z")
Sorry to disappoint. But theres several black anchors/commentators at Fox. Scroll through the photos of the various news teams. Its about the same as CNN. > **[Fox News Shows | Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/shows)** > > Fox News TV Shows - Complete list of Fox News shows online, listings and schedules. Watch Fox & Friends and Special Report web shows, full episodes, video clips and participate in live chats. Theres also an entire Fox Latino channel. > **[Latino | Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/category/latino)** > > Latino ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/32 "2013-05-17T18:03:45Z")
This thread was started last November. It was revived today by **idideat12** ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/33 "2013-05-17T18:35:09Z")
> [@idideat12](#): > > unionized schools that is the new plantation. I agree. I’ve always said that schools should be good and ionized. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/34 "2013-05-17T19:23:17Z")
Fox doesn’t have a black anchor because of Obama. Nothing more to say. Whatever your followup question is, if you are refering to something you think is bad the answer will be “because of Obama.” Why don’t my pants fit anymore? Because of Obama. See, I could be a journalist. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/35 "2013-05-17T20:24:40Z")
> [@idideat12](#): > > Blacks are raised on welfare, in ghettos, trapped in union run schools (prisons), and told that its better for them and that republicans and foxnews are trying to keep them from getting more free stuff just because they are black. > Some blacks are smart enough to think for themselves and realize its been the democratic policies of welfare, abortion, and unionized schools that is the new plantation. The black man has been beaten down and the reverends sharpton and jackson are laughing all the way to the rainbow bank. > Try this for once. Maybe foxnews does not have any black anchors because no QUALIFIED blacks are applying for the job. If you call the black anchors on MSNBC “qualified”, you cannot recognize racial hires. Thank you affirmative action. Because of Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/36 "2013-05-17T20:27:47Z")
Fox News Chicago does. Several. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/37 "2013-05-17T21:03:14Z")
Welcome to the Straight Dope **idideat12**. I look forward to exchanging witty banter with you over the silliest of things. Let’s read your first post: > [@idideat12](#): > > Blacks are raised on welfare, in ghettos, trapped in union run schools (prisons), and told that its better for them and that republicans and foxnews are trying to keep them from getting more free stuff just because they are black. > Some blacks are smart enough to think for themselves and realize its been the democratic policies of welfare, abortion, and unionized schools that is the new plantation. The black man has been beaten down and the reverends sharpton and jackson are laughing all the way to the rainbow bank. > Try this for once. Maybe foxnews does not have any black anchors because no QUALIFIED blacks are applying for the job. If you call the black anchors on MSNBC “qualified”, you cannot recognize racial hires. Thank you affirmative action. Oh. Well, this rather puts a damper on the thread… ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/38 "2013-05-17T21:16:06Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > This thread was started last November. > > It was revived today by **idideat12** I am sensing a pattern here. 1. Brand new poster. 2. Wild glaringly mean post designed to rile people’s emotions. 3. ??? 4. Profit? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/39 "2013-05-17T21:18:12Z")
“Swarthy and Balanced” doesn’t have the same panache. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216/40 "2013-05-17T21:32:59Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > It’s scary enough having a black president! It’s worse than that even. If Fox had any black anchors, viewers might actually think it WAS Obama. Them blacks all look alike, y’know. Blacks carry a higher-than-average risk of being Democrats and/or Muslims and/or Radicals and/or Marxists and/or Kenyans{ETA: See footnote}. And there’s _no way for a viewer to decide_ (which Fox is all about letting their viewers do, after all), since they all look alike, y’know. Therefore it would never do for a black anchor to appear on Fox. Quite logical, actually. :dubious: - ETA: This _must_ be true. Otherwise, what is the probability that we’d get a President who is ALL of those things? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-fox-news-have-any-black-anchors/642216.md?page=3)