John Landgraf: Nearly 60% of FX’s Writing Staff Are Now Not White Men

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/john-landgraf-usc-gould-entertainment-law-1203384643/


Article talks about diversity on one of Disney's owned venues

Nearly 60% of the writing staff behind FX Networks’ series — a programming slate that includes “Pose,” “American Horror Story” and “Better Things” — are female or people of color, said FX Networks and FX productions chairman John Landgraf at the USC Gould School of Law-Beverly Hills Bar Association 2019 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business.

That follows the network’s effort to diversify its directorial ranks, an ongoing initiative first spurred by a 2015 Variety investigation by Maureen Ryan — a story that Landgraf name-checked at the Saturday luncheon — which found that only 12% of FX’s directors during the 2014-2015 TV cycle were women or people of color, making it the worst network offender that season.

The revelation made him “really embarrassed,” and prompted him to believe it was a “failure of leadership on [his] part.” FX has since increased its diversity efforts; over half of its directors in the most recent TV cycle were women.

 

[TheBigA]

What would make this presentation more effective is if the diversification of the staff translated into a diversity of the audience. I don't see that mentioned in the article.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Personally when I watch a show I only care about whether I am being entertained or not.
I generally have no idea who wrote the material, or what their race is. Nor do I care.
I only care about their talent.

Diversification of staff will never translate to diversification of the audience because
those of us in the audience don't know or care what race the writers of the material were.