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Ed Siegel

The color of television

By Ed Siegel
July 9, 2008

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YOU WOULD think with Barack Obama's ascendancy that network television, often a barometer of where the culture is, would have its share of leading black men and women. Yet, if you scan a week's worth of shows on CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox, you might think the networks are locked in a pre-"Cosby Show" mindset from a quarter century ago. (Full article: 691 words)

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