Posted on 02/21/2016 7:23:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are "whitewashed," and that an "epidemic of invisibility" runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people.
A study to be released Monday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism offers one of the most wide-ranging examinations of the film and television industries, including a pointed "inclusivity index" of 10 major media companies -- from Disney to Netflix -- that gives a failing grade to every movie studio and most TV makers.
Coming just days before an Academy Awards where a second straight year of all-white acting nominees has enflamed an industry-wide crisis, the report offers a new barrage of sobering statistics that further evidence a deep discrepancy between Hollywood and the American population it entertains, in gender, race and ethnicity. ...
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The movie business is a gambling business, and the stakes are high. You risk millions of dollars on the hope of earning millions more. Most of the time you don’t.
Damning: NBA/NFL Blackwashing.
When political correctness meets profits, profits win.
I think they are serious. Black people, homosexuals and minorities are under-represented in Hollywood? Did I read that correctly??
“a second straight year of all-white acting nominees”
Perhaps blacks and other minorities need to be working on their acting and/or find another industry.
Yeah. Imagine if Marvel kept Nick Fury as a white character?
So they are going to be straight faced and proclaim that minorities and LBTQRDSAdFhFdg are under-represented by their ratio of population to general society. Really?
STupid.
I look forward to movies with Will Smith, Michael Ealy, Pam Patton, Terrence Howard, Denzel, Halle, Idris Elba, that midget who’s name escapes for now but, funny as hell.
A whole host of others but, I don’t sit around thinking about their blackness.
I do enjoy their work, irregardless of their skin tone.
Oh, Kevin Hart
I, as a conservative, will be keeping quiet on this one, and see liberalism’s creation (racialism) eat one of the major powers of liberals, Hollywood. Let them beat each other to a pulp!
STupid.
Just another black comedy...
Africans are happy to come to America and wake up everyday with a hopeful spirit.
Black people live in a America and have a chip on their shoulder...
Correct. And when they green light movie projects they usually have on tinted glasses that serve to bias the green lights towards more progressive themes. These are precisely the type of themes that might feature more minorities, LGBT types and such. So if such a movie is not funded (and thereby minorities and LGBTs do not get a gig in the movie), it is because the powers that be do not think it will be a moneymaker. The solution seems to be: figure out ways to place minorities and LGBTs in plots that are likely to make money and the gigs and screen credits will occur.
The who gives what? LOL!
The left will eat itself.
Damning: BET awards, blackwashing.
Damning: Miss Black USA, blackwashing.
Well, if so many blacks did not have such a dislike of acting white, you would not have a second straight year of all white-acting nominees.
Argh. I have come to detest Samuel L. Jackson. Sigh. I used to like his work, but can’t ignore his liberal insanity anymore.
Crud. I wish I could, but I can’t.
Not before everyone else, though.
Marx had strange dreams about “dethron(ing) God and destroy(ing) capitalism”, as well as “strid(ing) through the wreckage (of the world) a creator”. His “fellow travelers” have the same nihilistic, apocalyptic mindset.
Him and Morgan Freeman. Good God if there’s a black role somehow it has to go to Morgan fricking Freeman like there are no other black actors that could do it.
” including a pointed “inclusivity index” of 10 major media companies — “
That’s where I stopped reading.
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