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Netflix Has Turned Its Back on Latinos
The New York Times ^ | March 17, 2019 | Vanessa Erazo

Posted on 03/17/2019 12:13:55 PM PDT by Jyotishi

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To: gcparent

Thanks for what appears to be a recommendation. I’ve been wondering if I should watch it.


41 posted on 03/17/2019 1:28:49 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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I keep seeing ‘get rich quick’ commercials on TV for investors in some new streaming media venture specially for ‘latinos’. I forget the name of the company, and a quick search didn’t turn it up, but it runs about ten times a night on the channels I usually have on.


42 posted on 03/17/2019 1:34:17 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Jyotishi

Given Netflix’s politics, is there ANY doubt that if this show had even moderately acceptable numbers it would have been renewed? And given how many Latinos are out there, obviously not many cared about this show that this fool claims was really important to their community.


43 posted on 03/17/2019 1:45:46 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Jyotishi

Netflix is having a problem with several of their ‘original’ series. They have cancelled quite a number.

Part of the problem is the duration/down time between ‘seasons’. When a series has 6 to 13 episodes PER YEAR, it is difficult to retain much of a following. Most of the series I watch, I completely forget what the previous season was about by the time the next season is aired. I do like that Netflix and Amazon Prime put all of the new season episodes on at the same time. I like to binge several episodes at a time.

Most TV/Cable series have 16 to 22 episodes per year. It is difficult enough to follow them the way that they are split up. Sometimes they show a couple of new episodes, then a couple or few weeks breaks, then one or two new episodes, etc. And they wonder why viewership numbers fall.


44 posted on 03/17/2019 2:19:23 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Jyotishi

I got ignored by someone on Twitter (Big loss.) when I asked if they just made up terms and isms to basically call anyone that disagrees with them a Nazi.

I want to know why this is the first time I have ever seen the term colorism. I had to type that twice to get autocorrect not to change it which means it is a completely made up PC nad “othering” term that makes you evil if you don’t know what it is.

Of all the reasons I despise the left, making up terms, conditions, insults, faux outrage and splintering everyone is in my top 3 of disliking them.

There is no one more racist in America than a white liberal.


45 posted on 03/17/2019 2:27:24 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: Jyotishi

Who knew Bonnie Franklin was a Latino? Are they so lazy they can't come up with an original title?

46 posted on 03/17/2019 2:34:25 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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Ah, good old Pat Harrington.

“Nothing lasts forever, unless it does”


47 posted on 03/17/2019 2:42:58 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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“Who knew Bonnie Franklin was a Latino?”

Bonnie Franklin - Wikipedia

Franklin was born in Santa Monica, California,[1] the daughter of Claire (née Hersch, August 24, 1911 - June 7, 2014) who outlived her[2] and Samuel Benjamin Franklin (1902-1997), an investment banker who founded the Beverly Hills chapter of B’nai B’rith.[3][4] Her parents were both Jewish immigrants, her father from Russia and her mother from Romania; they married in Montreal before moving to the United States. . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Franklin


48 posted on 03/17/2019 2:45:52 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

Yes I recommend it. It is more of a woman’s film. I was curious after seeing all the awards. Then learned much of it was based on the housekeeper of the director/cinematographer. He even recreated his childhood home with 70% of furnishings.


49 posted on 03/17/2019 3:09:25 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Jyotishi

Netflix cares about ratings.


50 posted on 03/17/2019 3:10:52 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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Cares about ratings? Not like you’d think.

(In a statement, Netflix disputed Nielsen’s figures, as it’s done with previous efforts to estimate the streaming service’s audience: “The data that Nielsen is reporting is not accurate, not even close, and does not reflect the viewing of these shows on Netflix.”)


51 posted on 03/17/2019 3:15:49 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: dfwgator

Me, too. We used to watch it in Spanish class in high school. “Rocky Echevarria” changed his professional name to Steven Bauer and had something of a mainstream acting career.


52 posted on 03/17/2019 3:18:21 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Destroying history will not make you feel good about the present." ~ Victor Davis Hanson)
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The Obamas and Susan Rice hate Latinos


53 posted on 03/17/2019 3:18:51 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (At school, at work, in government - FGGTO)
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To: Jyotishi

I tuned in Netflix three or four days ago and all their new additions are Hispanic and Latin. I noticed because I don’t particularly care for the genre.


54 posted on 03/17/2019 3:19:18 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Despite being the largest ethnic minority in the United States and making up nearly 18 percent of the population, Latino roles in digital scripted series constitute a measly 7.2 percent, a figure that's even lower for broadcast and cable.
It means Latinos refuse to be grouped by a bunch of shallow opportunist politicians and media tycoons.

55 posted on 03/17/2019 4:49:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (this tagline space is now available)
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!Si cierto! yo recuerdo QPUSA. :)


56 posted on 03/17/2019 6:59:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Jyotishi

Latinos need to live like Americans, which they supposedly are and want to be if they’re not already.

I’m what is called “Latino”, but, I’m American first, and I don’t ever watch the strictly Latino TV stations.

Merge Latinos with all other races and ethnic groups, and that should be America, and the shows should reflect what America is or should be.

Same for shows like “blackish” and others that pretend that we’re living in different worlds.


57 posted on 03/17/2019 6:59:44 PM PDT by adorno
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To: dfwgator
I used to like “Chico And The Man.” Whatever happened to that show?

Freddie Prinze killed himself.

Jack Albertson is also not his old self.

Maybe The Walking Chico and Man with its signature line "ees no' my grave, man!"...?

58 posted on 03/17/2019 7:07:23 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Jyotishi

What country are “Latinos” from?
Also liberals using quota’s to determine what shows to make ends up ruining tv and the movies. SJW’s ruin entertainment.

FTA: Even more telling, Netflix has never released an original film helmed by a U.S.-Latino director. The sum total of their current Latino content? Five shows and specials out of 700. Even with three new Latino-centric series in development, the additions for 2019 barely push past one lonely percentage point.

In a recent announcement, Netflix boasted about plans to roll out 50 original Mexican productions — both movies and series. This is in addition to scores of originals produced in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. According to the company’s own estimation, by the end of the year they will have filmed 70 projects in the region.


59 posted on 03/17/2019 9:06:19 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (My sister said the only thing that did not was the clock. GE has spare parts)
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To: Jyotishi

I was being sarcastic.


60 posted on 03/18/2019 11:19:25 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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