Posted on 08/02/2010 8:34:03 PM PDT by TaraP
July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- CBS President Nina Tassler has apologized for the network's low rating on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) recent "Network Responsibility Index," which ranked broadcast and cable networks by the percentage of "LGBT-inclusive" hours in their original prime time programming.
"We're very disappointed in our track record so far," said Tassler at the Television Critics Association fall previews. "We'll try to do better."
CBS received the worst rating of the five broadcast networks evaluated, with 7% of its original primetime programming being classified as "LGBT-inclusive."
The CW, Fox, ABC, and NBC all scored ahead of CBS.
GLAAD had faulted CBS for having no regular LGBT series characters. CBS had homosexual characters in at least three reality shows, a recurring homosexual character in one series, and homosexual characters in single episodes of at least two other shows.
GLAAD also blamed CBS series such as "CSI" and "NCSIS: Los Angeles" for having "a track record of portraying LGBT people as only victims or pathological killers."
"CBS needs to ensure that this does not happen in the future," they said.
Promising to make up for past failures, Tassler said the show "The Good Wife" would introduce a homosexual character, and there would be a recurring homosexual character on "S#*! My Dad Says."
GLAAD President Jarret Barrios said that it was "encouraging that CBS shares our disappointment in the network’s lack of gay and transgender representation and we are hopeful that the new characters will help build awareness and understanding of our community among viewers."
“After two years of receiving a ‘failing’ grade and a commitment last year to be more inclusive, we hope that CBS President Nina Tassler makes true on this promise to bring the network more in line with the industry standard."
GLAAD had also rated cable networks: MTV rated first, while ABC Family came in second
How to lower your ratings even further.
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none of the top rated cable shows on USA have gay characters.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll try to watch less. Hmm, that's going to be tough since I already don't watch CBS at all.
GLAAD had also rated cable networks: MTV rated first, while ABC Family came in second
That ABC "Family" is promoting homosexual lifestyles tells you all you need to know about why my family doesn't watch ABC either.
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“Ratings mean nothing to us, if it’s for ‘The Cause™’. We don’t care if all our advertisers leave us, and we have to sell our network to George Soros or whatever other liberal for a dollar. All that matters is our unswerving support of deviancy, perversion, and un-Americanism. We think we have parasites in our brain making us do these irrational things. Maybe we are possessed by mind controlling space aliens or the spirits of ancient Aztec crazy people. My feet are turning into bicycles and I can hear my hair breathing. I think I’ll make a bad prime time show about that.”
Well, CNN has Anderson Cooper and FNC has Shepard Smith. Perhaps See-BS should hire Perrz Hilton.
Strange...all this time I thought the point of TV dramas was to allow viewers to relax and be entertained - not to "build awareness" for sexual orientations.
I know. That' so gay.
“Strange...all this time I thought the point of TV dramas was to allow viewers to relax and be entertained.”
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That all started to change for the worse, with the pedantic preaching of the secular, white Christian hater, Norman Lear, and his hugely overrated, All in the Family drudgery.
The required plot for almost all TV shows is homosexuals are good and Christians are bad.
The network executives continually apologize to homosexual groups and try to fawn up to them and give them whatever they want. Whenever Christians point out that the TV networks attack them and ridicule them they are accused of supporting censorship.
I know BS when I CBS.....
Exactly!
Just like the *Days of Noah*
“we hope that CBS President Nina Tassler makes true on this promise to bring the network more in line with the industry standard.”
So the “industry standard” is homosexuals in every program? The president of an entire network humbles herself before the head of an organization who sole purpose is to promote homosexuality in the public square? I don’t get it. Polls show that most Americans were opposed to gay marriages, implying that they do not really support the inclusion of the homosexual life style in the traditional American landscape. Yet, Americans are willing to accept the integration of homosexuals in daily television watching as if it was no big deal. Back in the ‘80s, there was a book called, I believe, After The Ball, which explained the careful strategy to make “Joe Six Pack” so immune to homosexuals that even he would not care about them anymore. It is happening right before our eyes, and no one cares. Television is a very dangerous medium.
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