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The University Daily Kansan: GRADUATION ISSUE
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
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"We believe that CBS has made tremendous strides to increase its diversity on screen, behind the camera and in the executive suites," said Chris Ender, network representative. "However, we certainly recognize that more
with the exception of CBS, most of the networks refused comment Monday. Some said they declined because they had yet to see the report.
Network broadcasting not diverse, study says
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — More than a year after the major TV networks agreed to better reflect America's ethnic mix, broadcasters continue to marginalize minorities and women, according to a new study.
Overall, network television remains a white man's world, the advocacy group Children Now concludes in its study of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN and WB. The group conducted a similar study of the 1999-2000 TV season.
the prime-time sitcoms most likely to draw younger viewers offer the least diversity on television, according to the report released yesterday.
A viewer watching TV on any given night during the 2000-01 season would most likely see featured "a thirty-something, white male" working in a professional job, the study said.
The vast majority of the character's friends and co-workers also would be white professional men. Minorities appear mostly to provide "a service, a piece of information or a punch line," the study said.
can be done and more will be done."
Situation comedies, the most popular genre among children, are the least diverse programs on TV, the study said. Only 14 percent have ethnically mixed casts, while the vast majority tend to feature all white or, in a few cases, all black characters.
In comparison, mixed leading casts are featured on two-thirds (67 percent) of the programs, mostly dramas, airing during the 12 a.m. CST hour. That's when the fewest children are watching, the study said.
The study questioned the message segregated sitcoms are sending young viewers, noting a 1999 Children Now poll found 12 to 17-year-olds chose comedians as their top TV role models.
The picture was brighter for some ethnic groups, dimmer for others. While the number of black characters in network series increased to 17 percent from 13 percent, Hispanics dropped from 3 percent to 2 percent. Asian Pacific American characters increased from 2 percent to 3 percent.
By comparison, blacks and Hispanics each make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population and Asian Pacific Americans are 9percent, according to 2000 census figures.
Women aren't taring well on television either. There are twice as many male as female characters, and the women tend to be cookiecutter "beautiful, young, thin and white" and motivated mostly by looks and love, researchers said.
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5 Summitts
4 Fox chaser?
1 Singer Falana
1 "Thou ... not..."
1 Speak incoherently
1 Hebrew month
1 Mingles
2 More repentant
4 Nourishment
3 Moneymaker?
2 Shade provider
2 Shiny lizard
8 River coins
10 Affirmatives
4 Marine eel
3 By way of
38 Power
39 Joltn tune
40 Protects
43 Pair
44 Accompice
46 Because of
4 River frolickers
47 Redeem IOUs
51 Garden plot
53 Relaxes
54 Elevator cage
55 Beat calamitous
64 Gadget
62 Essential
65 Plant propagation bases
67 Son of Eliel Saarinen
68 Songstress Fitgeraid
69 Expect
70 City on the Truckee
71 Time period
72 Tierney and Tunney
73 Arrest
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4 Damaging
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11 Tear down
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13 Assay
14 Valley bloomer?
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17 Fragment
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19 Diarist Anais
20 Not a main thoroughfare
23 Harden
24 Glacial direction
25 Sports off.
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29 Food evaluators
50 Golf scores
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59 Fishing rod
60 Ralph Lauren's company
61 Actor Rob
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