CBS solos for NAACP.(CBS network president is the only network chief present at NAACP public hearing on ethnic diversity in media)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, December, 1999 by Schlosser, Joe

Moonves is only network president at diversity 'hearing'; other nets' execs balk, walk The NAACP came to Hollywood last week looking for answers from the Big Four broadcast networks to the charge that there is a dearth of diversity on the small screen. The results were mixed. Billed as a one-day public hearing on diversity, the NAACP's Los Angeles forum Nov.

29 turned into something of a three-ring circus with Leslie Moonves in the spotlight and the other three networks doing a disappearing act. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, who has been outspoken about what he deems to be scant use of minority actors and few minority employees at the Big Four networks, invited the top executives from CBS, Fox, ABC and NBC to defend their networks' records on...

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