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TV avoids racism's realities Roles that minorities play are few and unrealistic, study says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Television shows are avoiding the blatant racial stereotypes of the past but most blacks portrayed still are atypical - rich, happy and living lives free of bias, says a study of network entertainment.
"Poverty is invisible" on network shows, concluded Wider Opportunities for Women last week in its 12th part in a series of reports on the way women and minorities are portrayed in the media.
"DT denies the reality of racism in America," said Sally Steenland, who wrote the report. "Racial tension is commonplace in the real world but it can be among white and minority characters on entertainment television."
Wider Opportunities for Women is a nonprofit group working to promote equality in the workplace. The Ford Foundation financed the study.
All viewers are the losers when minority characters are created almost exclusively by white writers and producers, the report argues.
An analysis of more than 150 episodes from 30 network entertainment series shown last spring found many more blacks portrayed and a greater diversity in their characters in the years since the Kerner Report, written following the riots of 1968, faulted television as "almost totally white in appearance and attitude."
"If television's integrated world is a happy one; if racism does not intrude into TV's workplace or neighborhood; if minority characters are nearly identical to their white buddies, the reason might be because white producers and writers are creating characters and developing plots out of their own experience and mind set," it said.
Now, almost a third of all primetime programs have minority characters, the study found. Most are blacks; Hispanics, Asians and Indians still are featured only sporadically.
"Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American viewers suffer because the complexity and reality of their lives are distorted into something that is unrecognizable."
Blacks on the screen do not live lives comparable to blacks in the real world, the study said.
On television, it said, nine out of 10 minority characters are rich or at least solidly middle class, whereas in reality more than 40 percent of minority men and 60 percent of minority women live on less than $10,000 a year.
"White viewers lose because they rarely see their reflection from someone else's eyes," it said. "In addition, they are absorbing images of others which lack dimension and authenticity."
The report said 93 percent of the producers of the 30 shows were white. It cited the percentage as the reason for what it called the unrealistic portrayals on television.
Also, minority characters created by white producers and writers lose their uniqueness, the report says.
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abortion, hybrids and Issues surrounding abortion will almost certainly be prominent in the 1990 Legislature.
"I would say that it's been a little
buffer from the pro-choice constitu-
tion."
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said she had received two or three letters a day about abortion
Branson said people have stopped her at the supermarket, at social gatherings and at meetings to discuss abortion.
People in Lawrence are concerned that the abortion debate will dominate the 1980 Legislature and reduce access to education, particularly education, she said.
The decision of whether to abort a pregnancy belongs to the woman, Branson said.
She said that her experience as a nurse at the University of Kansas Medical Center, when abortion was illegal before 1973, helped form her pro-choice position.
"There were always several women there with infections from ussage abortions," Branson said. "Will be abortions no matter what."
For that reason, she is concerned
State Sen. Wint Wint Jr., R-Lawrence, said most of the people who wrote to him were concerned with the government intervening in people's lives.
He said he was disturbed by "single issue" people who say abortion is more important than other issues.
about potential differences among states' laws. Women in states with restrictive laws will just travel to states with less restrictive laws to get abortions, she said.
"Any dominance of a single issue is harmful to the democratic system," Winter said.
But the Webster decision has focused attention on those proposals.
He said the Legislature would not face any new abortion issues in the 1990 session because legislation proposing abortion restrictions had been introduced annually for at least seven years.
"There's been a low-level fire burning," Winter said. "What this does is pour gasoline on those flames."
He said he was basically pro-choice because he opposes government regulation, but he supports some "reasonable restrictions" including limiting late-term abortions and requiring some form of parental consent for minors.
But he said he would continue to support allowing the Med Center to perform abortions.
Nancy Miller, a spokesman for the Med Center, said that between July 1, 1988, and June 30, 1989, 132 abortions were performed at the facility.
Robert Stephan, state attorney General, said Aug. 21 that the Webster case would allow the Legislature to ban abortions at the Med Center and might allow lawmakers to require all doctors to determine whether a fetus could live outside the womb.
"That's really the one place in Kansas where poor folks can go to get medical care," Winter said.
He also said a restrictive Kansas abortion law struck down by Roe remained invalid.
Jim Parrish, chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party, said he did not know which proposals the Legislature might consider, but he expected legislation that would restrict abortion.
Possible restrictions include eliminating public financing or the use of other financing methods.
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