{"id":238,"date":"2008-06-24T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-06-24T08:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T12:42:13","slug":"diversity-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Diversity on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

So CitizenSugar<\/a> posted an article about Racism and one of the issues brought up was about Diversity on TV<\/a> and why there’s so little of it. If 1\/3 of the people in the country are minorities, why isn’t this accurately represented in TV shows?<\/p>\n

When has TV EVER accurately represented any part of the population? It’s a fantasy land where everyone is skinny and has perfect skin. Over half the population’s fat too, yet no one on TV is. <\/p>\n

Diversity on TV is a problem, but one that’s not going to be fixed by just throwing minorities in shows. What happens when there is a minority family on a TV show? 90% of the time they’re ridiculously stereotyped. You need good writers too.<\/p>\n

The problem isn’t so much accurately representing diversity on TV, it’s accurately representing reality. It’s much more interesting to watch shows where the characters look and behave like real people than over the top freaks.<\/p>\n

Take Firefly for instance. Not based in reality at all, but the characters were so real. You could relate to them and feel their happiness and pain. Then there’s something like the last few seasons of Friends. Who acts like that??? I didn’t really give a crap about whether Rachael and Ross got together at the end because they were both lunatics.<\/p>\n

Even “reality shows” aren’t real. The first season of Survivor was great because the contestants were just regular people, not skinny models and wannabe actors. <\/p>\n

The media has to stop worrying so much about appearances and just work on creating something worth watching. People know what good TV is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So CitizenSugar posted an article about Racism and one of the issues brought up was about Diversity on TV and why there’s so little of it. If 1\/3 of the people in the country are minorities, why isn’t this accurately represented in TV shows? When has TV EVER accurately represented any part of the population? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-3Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}