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Article: NAACP TARGETS CABLE.
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- August 16, 1999
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Organization to Issue Diversity Report Card
NEW YORK--On the heels of its well-publicized, critical look at diversity in broadcast-television programming, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has turned its focus toward the cable industry, and is now surveying MSOs and networks on their minority hiring practices.
NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume said the civil-rights organization is preparing an in-depth "report card" targeting cable's hiring and advancement of minorities in top executive positions within networks, MSOs and associated companies.
Cable companies have either received or are about to get the ...