Researchers say Discovery’s programming overwhelmingly featured White men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks.
the event in 2020 for announcing a roster of TV specials that featured six White men out of eight named experts.
Carlee Bohannon, a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, praised the study for putting numbers to her and her colleagues’ long-standing concerns about diversity in both the media and shark science. When Bohannon founded her organization with three other Black scientists in 2020, it was the first time any of them had met other Black women in their field.“We all grew up seeing one type of person on TV,” Bohannon said.
But Whitenack and Bohannon agreed that the biggest concern was with the program’s lack of diversity and how that might shape young scientists’ perceptions of marine biology and whether they could enter the field.
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