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How white TV writers decide the stories Hollywood tells America
Hollywood prides itself on its progressive politics. Celebrities sported blue ribbons on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards to signal their resistance to President Trump. Winners mocked him onstage. They’ve routinely lambasted a White House that they view as hostile to immigrants, women and minorities.
But the self-congratulatory liberal bastion has its own problems with diversity, particularly in regards to the showrunners — executive producers and head writers who make hiring decisions — and TV writers who shape story lines and characters, according to a report commissioned by the racial justice organization Color of Change.
And efforts over two decades to diversify the writers’ rooms at TV networks have largely failed, the report found...
Also, the study, itself, is racist since it focused mainly on Black people.
Hollywood prides itself on its progressive politics. Celebrities sported blue ribbons on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards to signal their resistance to President Trump. Winners mocked him onstage. They’ve routinely lambasted a White House that they view as hostile to immigrants, women and minorities.
But the self-congratulatory liberal bastion has its own problems with diversity, particularly in regards to the showrunners — executive producers and head writers who make hiring decisions — and TV writers who shape story lines and characters, according to a report commissioned by the racial justice organization Color of Change.
And efforts over two decades to diversify the writers’ rooms at TV networks have largely failed, the report found...
Also, the study, itself, is racist since it focused mainly on Black people.