Derek McGinty, an anchor at W-USA9 located in Washington, D.C., just posted a link to an article from AOL’s Inside TV based on the lack of diversity that the popular ABC network show, The Bachelor, often broadcasts…
Do you see something wrong in this picture?
Photo Courtesy of ABC
Here’s a snippet of the article written by Scott Harris:
The 14th season of ABC’s popular reality dating show ‘The Bachelor’ airs tonight, and fans will be seeing some familiar faces — white faces, that is.
Jake Pavelka, who previously appeared as a rejected suitor on the show’s sister series ‘The Bachelorette,’ will be starring as the man in command this year, vying for the affection of 25 attractive women. But while the network’s strategy of bringing back popular contestants form one series to star in the next has proven successful in the past — the first season finale of ‘The Bachelorette’ snagged over 30 million viewers — it has also helped contribute to the impression that the series is uninterested in courting minority viewers.
To read the article in it’s entirety… CLICK HERE
Nevertheless, ABC isn’t the only network that needs to hire new Casting Directors for some of their programming…
My friends and I, as well as several DC natives, have recently had an issue with MTV’s new season of their Real World television show, which is in it’s twenty-third year and is MTV’s longest running program. Over the years, however, each cast has become so similar it’s hard to decipher between the seasons. This new season of the Real World is located in Washington, D.C. a.k.a. “The CHOCOLATE City”, but let’s take a look at the cast:
Photo Courtesy of MTV.com
Now, I know diversity doesn’t always have to do with race and ethnicity, but in Washington, D.C., where the Black population is 55.6%, I know I’m not the only one that sees the one chocolate “brother” in the crowd. I also know that MTV doesn’t cast based on the city… But let’s be real, if MTV was to ever do a Real World Atlanta, would it not be odd to have a cast similar to the cast of “Friends”? Maybe I’ve been going to an HBCU for too long where I notice these types of issues a bit too much, maybe I’m not another “Complacent Negro”, or maybe I live in the United States in 2010 and I would rather see a cast that actually is a true melting pot of the population… OR MAYBE, I would like a job in the Casting Department at MTV after graduation?!?
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