Posted on 12/21/2008 5:15:00 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is threatening to boycott or even sue major TV networks if they don't give more work to minority in front of and behind the camera.
In a report titled "Out of Focus, Out of Sync - Take 4," the NAACP Hollywood Bureau found out that the entertainment industry continues to fall short of diversity. Their officials warned that without quick action, they would be taking unspecified political action against the industry.
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said, "At a time when the country is excited about the election of the first African-American president in U.S. history, it is unthinkable that minorities would be so grossly under-represented on broadcast television."
The report cites statistics showing an ongoing trend where African Americans and other minorities continue to be underrepresented on TV.
Since the merger of networks UPN and WB into The CW, there has been a serious shortage of minority faces of primetime programming.
The association's Hollywood Bureau Executive Director Vicangelo Bulluck added, "Perpetrating the situation is the fact that the few African Americans in higher positions in that industry lack power to green light new series or make final creative decisions, which has translated into a critical lack of primetime programming by, for, or about people of color."
The report recommends establishing a task force that comprises network executive, educators and NAACP partners to update the understanding between the networks and the NAACP.
Can they just show America’s Most Wanted?
LOL . . .
I wonder how many whites worked on Soul Train.
Hey, NAACP, do the letters FO mean anything?
I guess this means more basketball games and boxing matches on primetime as well as a return of “Soul Train”?
Sure, as soon as they equalize the National Basketball Association .....
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous
yup yup...that’s his name.
Re-Runs of “I Spy” in prime time?
Yep! I wonder when BET is going to be challenged by WET!
Fine with me. I could care less as I rarely watch network television anyway. If I do it’s NatGeo or History Channel but both those channels have sold out to the Great Scam so there is really nothing else to watch.
More Cosby show reruns!
Guilt died Nov 4, 2008. Just ask Jesse Jackson why he wants to cut off the Zero’s....
I have no idea what the real numbers are but I would bet dollars to doughnuts that Blacks are tremendously over represented on all types of media. Other minorities may in fact be under represented.
The NAACP is a venomously racist organization. Everybody knows it, but almost nobody in the public eye has the courage to say it. So we just let them bully us around instead.
when will they change their name? have you tried calling anyone “colored” lately?
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