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In the DC area, we have no shortage of black nightly anchor people: Jim Vance (he's been on for YEARS), Leon Harris, Cynee Simpson. Those are the ones that I can quickly recall. I think there are others on channels I do not watch regularly.
Why is it that African Americans or for that matter or minorities never have lead anchor positions on nightly news and always relegated to daytime.
Also why is it that there a no lead African american actors on any prime time dramas let alone sit coms.
I find your remarks to be curiously uninformed. You are race baiting.
Why is it that African Americans or for that matter or minorities never have lead anchor positions on nightly news and always relegated to daytime.
Also why is it that there a no lead African american actors on any prime time dramas let alone sit coms.
In the DC area, we have no shortage of black nightly anchor people: Jim Vance (he's been on for YEARS), Leon Harris, Cynee Simpson. Those are the ones that I can quickly recall. I think there are others on channels I do not watch regularly.
Thats cause DC is majority black and half of metro area.
Also I am referring to national networks news and prime time TV
Why is it that African Americans or for that matter or minorities never have lead anchor positions on nightly news and always relegated to daytime.
Also why is it that there a no lead African american actors on any prime time dramas let alone sit coms.
That is when most of their viewers are home to watch.
This is a non-issue. There are lots of black ancors and reporters on the news.
According to a study by Bali State University and the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), between 1990 and 2006, the percentage of African-Americans in the broadcast news workforce dropped from 10.1 percent to 9.5 percent. "Hispanics" rose in representation during that time, and are at 9.6%. In a 2005 Ball State/RTNDA study, "Running in Place," a survey of 1,624 television stations found that 13.4 percent of news anchors, 7.5 percent of sports anchors, and 4.1 percent of weathercasters were Black.
So if it's averaged at around 10%.... which isn't enough off the % representation of the population as a whole to make it seem as if it's some kind of epidemic of non-representation that can't be explained by geographical and population distribution within media markets.
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