links for 2008-09-04

"“When you look at our programs, the most popular ones — ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Lost,’ ‘Desperate Housewives’ — one of the things they have in common is diversity in lead characters and stories,” said Robert Mendez, senior vice president for diversity at the Disney-ABC Television Group. “We believe that diversity makes those shows much more interesting.”

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"White middle-class men are the most discriminated against group in television, Jeremy Paxman has claimed. The Newsnight presenter, 58, pointed to a string of women senior executives as evidence of their growing dominance in the industry. "

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"Politically correct talk once ensured that African Americans would be free of verbal intimidation, but now has managed to stifle “any honest discussions about race,” Jackson says."

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