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women gets abortions when tests show they have a high chance of having a down-syndrome
child. As one would expect, Fox News did not argue in favor of women and their choice to have
an abortion. This segment lasted 5 minutes and had one female Republican guest. In the last day,
there were 6 male guests making up 35 minutes of airtime versus 2 female guests making up 9
minutes of airtime.
At the end of my analysis, I tallied up all the categories to get a better picture of my
research. In the three days of analysis that I conducted; CNN had a total of 32 guests. Of the 32,
19 were male and 13 were female. In percentage, which will be an important part of the research,
59.4% of the guests were male and 40.6% were female. In means of airtime, there was a total
445 minutes of combined airtime. Men held 273 minutes compared to 172 minutes for women.
Again, in percentage, men held 61.3% of the airtime compared to 38.9% for women. This shows
that while females have significantly less airtime, when female guests were on the show, they
earned about as much of the airtime in regard to their representation. In other words, roughly
40% of the guest were female and 40% of the airtime had a female guest.
Fox News was extremely similar regarding airtime versus representation. At the end of
the three days, there were a total of 28 guests on the Fox News program. Of the 28, 23 were male
guests compared to 5 female guests. Of all guests, 82.1% of the guest were male compared to
17.9% that were female. Of 185 total airtime minutes, 152 belonged to men and 33 minutes
belonged to women. Of the total airtime, 82.2% of the time there was a male guest on and 17.8%
of the time there was a female guest. In regards of their airtime versus representation, it was a
0.1% off. 17.9% of the guests were female and 17.8% of the time there was a female on screen
(excluding the host, Martha MacCallum).