NAACP Chief Is Optimistic After Talks

NAACP CHIEF IS OPTIMISTIC AFTER TALKS
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 9/27, AUTHOR: Greg Braxton]
After meeting for the first time last week with top broadcast television network executives, NAACP President Bruce Gordon said he now feels cautiously optimistic about what he feels is a lack of cultural diversity in prime time. The meetings were held more than three months after Gordon first expressed his unhappiness with the absence of any black stars in new comedies on the four major networks. He had said that this fall marks the first time in "recent memory" in which there is not a comedy on ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox with an African American lead and that the major networks had failed to honor their commitment to diversity. Gordon said that his concerns revolve around what he saw as a lack of minorities in the producing and writing ranks of prime-time television, as well as minorities as "show runners" -- producers who oversee the day-to-day operations of a series.
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