‘TV Networks Have Failed Latinos’

The National Hispanic Media Council has been doing this for years; grading the big television networks on Latino diversity. Here’s their report card for 2010:

• CBS,  B-plus
• ABC, B-minus
• NBC, B-minus
• Fox, C-plus

Alex Nogales, of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, reacted to the report in a press conference:

“The networks pretty well failed Latinos in their progress of diversity practices. They did very well with African Americans, they did very well with Asian-Pacific Americans, but they failed us.”

The biggest complaint is that there needs to be more Latinos working behind the camera, writing and producing the stories that shape the American point of view.

Los Angeles’ KABC-TV has a good piece about the report.