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CRITICS HAVE BEEN sounding the alarm about mainstream news' narrow perspective for a long time. Now there's proof. A recently released 2001 study of ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News found that "92 percent of all U.S. sources interviewed were white, 85 percent were male and, where party affiliation was identifiable, 75 percent were Republican," according to a report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. The slant in favor of Caucasian male conservative views worsened with the war on terrorism. While Republicans already made up 68 percent of the news sources used prior to Sept. 11, that figure shot up to 87 percent for Sept. 11 through Dec. 31, 2001. (Camille T. Taiara)