NAACP Blasts CNN's Lack of Diversity

It's tough to tone down the glare from that sea of white faces.

In a press release issued this morning, the NAACP condemned 24-hour cable news channel CNN for its recently announced prime time news lineup, calling the lack of diversity in its collection of news anchors a “glaring omission.”

“The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of African American journalists in prime time news, both on cable and national news shows,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in the statement. “We have come to expect this from the likes of Fox News, but not other networks. While we understand that news is now a 24-hour cycle, most Americans get their news from the morning and evening prime time broadcasts.”

The new CNN news lineup, which was announced yesterday, features John King, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Piers Morgan.

Of course Fox employs more blacks, as well as liberals, than CNN employs conservative voices. But hey, they have to work that swipe in at Fox somehow.

Curiously escaping their ire was lily-white MSNBC.