{"id":1608105,"date":"2022-08-16T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608105"},"modified":"2022-08-16T08:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:48:02","slug":"media-panic-over-late-nights-lack-of-diversity-just-not-ideological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-panic-over-late-nights-lack-of-diversity-just-not-ideological\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Panic Over Late Night\u2019s Lack Of Diversity (Just Not Ideological)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-panic-over-late-nights-lack-of-diversity-just-not-ideological%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Samantha Bee, we hardly knew you. Desus &#038; Mero channeled the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/jerry-lewis-dean-martin-inside-bitter-split-and-reunion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin and Lewis split.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, right on schedule, the mainstream media is clutching its pearls at late night TV\u2019s lack of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Too many straight white males getting all the eyeballs (and absurdly large paychecks).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI\u2019m willing to pay. I\u2019m willing to pay $4 a gallon. Hell, I\u2019ll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla.\u201d<br \/>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenAtHome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephenAtHome<\/a>, who makes $15mil a year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ypLOtSeY4\">pic.twitter.com\/0ypLOtSeY4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Elder (@larryelder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larryelder\/status\/1501472365670277120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s missing? Ideological diversity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of diversity that rarely, if ever, gets mentioned in the current Culture Wars. Geena Davis doesn\u2019t name check it during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffconway\/2022\/06\/20\/geena-davis-on-her-gender-equality--efforts-in-hollywood-reflects-on-a-league-of-their-own-30th-anniversary\/?sh=3cd3f36645c3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extensive work on equity and inclusion<\/a>. Media outlets ignore late-night TV\u2019s extreme liberal bias, too.<\/p>\n<p>So losing two late-night shows sparked a flood of news stories bemoaning a cultural step backward.<\/p>\n<p>A more honest take?<\/p>\n<p>Bee\u2019s \u201cFull Frontal\u201d ratings were catastrophically bad, and the show deserved the heave-ho. And Showtime\u2019s \u201cDesus &#038; Mero\u201d got crushed by the inevitable \u201ccreative differences\u201d or ego overload, depending what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night landscape mostly remains the same, but media outlets can\u2019t say the truth out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is.<\/p>\n<p>They fret losing any platform, large or minuscule, to promote its preferred progressive narratives.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/late-night-pounces-seizes-on-jan-6-fake-news-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED: LATE NIGHT POUNCES ON FAKE NEWS JAN. 6 STORY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter led the pack, worrying that losing two prominent shows would mean a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-reviews\/desus-mero-samantha-bee-james-corden-late-night-diversity-1235191191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less diverse late night lineup.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Critic\u2019s Notebook: Is Late Night on the Verge of a Diversity Downgrade?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To media reporters, \u201cdiversity\u201d means everything from liberal voices to hard Left voices.<\/p>\n<p>Progress!<\/p>\n<p>The essay all but ignores the role ratings play in the conversation. Bee\u2019s show got the ax for nebulous reasons, according to one of the premier Hollywood news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>THR does mention Fox News\u2019 \u201cGutfeld!\u201d in passing and in the most inconsequential way possible.<\/p>\n<p>And just for fun, let\u2019s acknowledge that diversity can be ideological as well as related to race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Just because I think Fox News\u2019 Gutfeld! is glib and hacky doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s not serving an audience that clearly felt underserved.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201cfun\u201d to diminish the one show that challenges Stephen Colbert for the ratings throne week in, week out, with a fraction of the \u201cLate Show\u2019s\u201d resources.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all the ideological diversity the author can muster.<\/p>\n<p>Bless the author\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<p>The scribe\u2019s unwillingness to talk ratings, and show business, is never more obvious than in this telling paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Noah is probably too big a name to go from 11:30 to 12:30, even if CBS would represent a far larger potential platform than his current home on Comedy Central. We\u2019ll never know how many people actually watch Ruffin on Peacock, but if the number is even \u201csome,\u201d the NBCUniversal brass would be idiotic not to do anything in their power to keep her around.<\/p>\n<p>Noah\u2019s show routinely rubbed shoulders with \u201cFull Frontal\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/trevor-noah-whca-greg-gutfeld\/\">late-night basement.<\/a> And Peacock should keep Ruffin around no matter how large an audience she draws?<\/p>\n<p>The far-Left LA Times dubbed the changes part of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/late-night-recession-latt-123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Late Night Recession<\/a>.\u201d The equally progressive NPR asked if late-night TV was still <a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/segments\/is-it-still-worth-staying-up-for-late-night-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth staying up to see<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another NPR piece either pretends Bee drew a crowd or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/28\/1113910604\/samantha-bees-cancellation-hints-at-tough-times-for-women-and-poc-in-late-night-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ignores her ratings folly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My fingers are crossed that Bee, an Emmy award-winning host, lands well. But it\u2019s also important for the industry to recognize and preserve opportunities for the next generation of late night TV talent likely to expand the genre through reinvention and inclusiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Who would want Bee after her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/samantha-bee-raise-hell-tbs-response\/\"> angry, laugh-free reign at TBS<\/a> drew such a small crowd? And how inclusive is a TV lineup that ignores half the country? (Good thing you and I are helping pay NPR salaries)<\/p>\n<p>Even before Bee and Desus &#038; Mero left the arena NPR demanded the person taking over for James Corden on \u201cThe Late Late Show\u201d be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/05\/1096474018\/james-cordens-replacement-the-late-late-show-amber-ruffin-trevor-noah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a person of color.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s guessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/terrence-williams-comedian-interview-trump\/\">Terrence K. Williams<\/a>, a black conservative comic, didn\u2019t make the outlet\u2019s short list of replacements. Wrong ideology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/stephen-colbert-gutfeld-ratings-insurrection-trump\/\"><strong>RELATED: IS THIS STEPHEN COLBERT\u2019S WORST WEEK EVER?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How corrupt is the media when it comes to late-night TV? The LA Times called Bee\u2019s attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/conservatives-harass-samantha-bee-restaurants\/\">gin up a mob<\/a> against Supreme Court justices an \u201cimpassioned call to arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, The Ringer all but demands<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/tv\/2022\/7\/27\/23279890\/full-frontal-samantha-bee-desus-mero-late-night-tv-comedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201csystemic change\u201d in late-night television.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the extent that late night\u2019s paradigm had started to shift, the fate of Full Frontal and Desus &#038; Mero shows how fragile that incremental progress truly is. Just a couple of cancellations are enough to bring late night back within spitting distance of its former status quo. And, however impressive one show\u2019s accomplishments, recent events are a case study in how individual achievements are no substitute for systemic change.<\/p>\n<p>This must be said early and often.<\/p>\n<p>These same voices haven\u2019t said a word, not a syllable, about the dearth of right-leaning voices prior to \u201cGutfeld!\u201d It\u2019s how you know their diversity mantras are laughable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about political power, not inclusion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/gutfeld-late-night-king\/\"><strong>RELATED: NO FLUKE: \u2018GUTFELD!\u2019 REMAINS LATE NIGHT KING\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most embarrassing media example?\u00a0Deadline.com\u2019s extensive report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/08\/late-night-landscape-shift-brings-new-opportunities-challenges-1235091158\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changing face of late-night television<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article ticks off all the key and minor players in the space \u2026 except the one show at or near the top of the ratings heap.<\/p>\n<p>All together now, \u201cGutfeld!\u201d starring Fox News superstar Greg Gutfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Also not mentioned? Late night TV\u2019s relentless liberal slant.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media walks in lockstep with the Democratic Party, ignoring those who don\u2019t pledge allegiance to the progressive flag.<\/p>\n<p>Their late-night coverage is just more proof of that sad reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Bee, we hardly knew you. Desus &#038; Mero channeled the legendary Martin and Lewis split. 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