Writers Room Project. Decision makers at each level bring assumptions about what is happening or not happen ing in the world, what audiences will or wont respond to, who has the talent to make their shows succeed and who doesnt, and what is an acceptable or unacceptable story. Thats natural. But what is intolerable is not having any checks in place when their assumptions are wrong. What is skewed about the Hollywood system is the degree to which those decision makers can exclude information they dont want to hear, and people they dont want to listen to, and avoid consequences for how their decisions a ect people. The market will not solve this problem anymore than it does when we pretend that oil companies can regulate their own impact on the environment, or that technology compa nies can regulate their own impact on our privacy and security. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a wide array of programs which are working to help build a national Culture of Health. 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Many previous efforts, mild at best, were nonetheless doomed to fail in changing incen tives. According to this report, the diversity slot hire program itself appears to have created a perverse disincentive to true inclusion, whereby showrunners give the appear ance of inclusion by cycling through people of color writers for the year or two they get them free of charge, and then disposing of them once they require a real budget to sup port in favor of another, junior free writer. And that limits the ability of any critical mass of writers of color to build seniority over time, which is so important for building influence in writers rooms. We know, just to cite one example, that crime procedurals greatly mis educate the public about both Black people and Black family and community life and alsofrom their por trayals of crime science to policing to the courtshow our criminal justice system actual ly works. They greatly influence the public truth about crime, the o icial public story and our common reference points. We know this shapes both what people think about Black people in real life and the public policies and political rhetoric they do or do not support. Presently, however, there are no incentives within the industryand not nearly enough leverage outside of itto change the storytelling practices that lead to so much harm. It all comes down to changing the conditions that presently sustain those practices, i. To do that, we need to get organized. That is just one example of where Hollywood distorts reality for the worse. Is it surprising, when we see that less than 1. That AMC, TBS and TNT had both no women showrunners and no people of color showrunners, and CBS, FOX, Hulu and Showtime had no people of color showrunnersThat 1. AMC, Hulu, Showtime and TBS had only one Black writer or none at all, with Hulu having no Black writers at all That 9. CBS, which aired 2. Netflix, had either just one Black writer or none at all, the majority with none at all Or that while CW has become stronger on diversity with respect to race and gender overall, they consistently exclude Black people from that progress, such that 1. CW shows had only one Black writer or none at all, 1. When those of us in world of advocacy talk about systemic racism, this is what we are talking about. It is not surprising that, save the several shows that stand out as powerful examples of progress Insecure, Atlanta, etc., the industry as a whole is part of the problems we see today when we look at race and gender dynamics in society. The publicconsum ersshould have a voice in determining the standards for what we see, and whether cur rent results are good enough. They are not good enough. Hollywood content is full of contradictions. ABC, FOX and NBC are on the right track with respect to inclusion in many but certainly not all respects. While ABC and FOX, in partic ular, have engineered major turnarounds in popularity and success and profit with the decision to support the creative voices of Black creators, showrunners and writers, most others have dug in their heels, even in the face of those successes. CBS, once the champion of Norman Lears record breaking lineup of successful shows, including All in the Family, The Je ersons and Maude, as well as the home of shows like MAH, is now digging in its heels to defend writers rooms that systematically exclude non white people, and target white audiences with regressive white shows in which people of color do not exist in a meaningful way. AMC and Amazon, among the worst in terms of excluding Black showrunners and writers, are troubling in that they are relatively new platforms for influencing the trends of original content on TV, and their trend is not good. Netflix is currently the largest producer of television content in terms of the sheer number of original scripted shows, and while some signs are encouraging, they have a long way to go. Even NBC, the same network that has made strides in creating an empathetic, multi racial story world through This Is Us, also readily made Donald Trump a star through The Apprentice, thereby giving legitimacy to his anti Black birther movement and anti Mexican tirades, all the way through to having him host Saturday Night Live in the middle of his campaign. Women, immigrants, queer and trans people, Native Americans, working people, people with disabilities and people of colorespecially Black peopleare caught in the cross hairs of these contradictions. It is time for those of us who are most impacted to have a voice in how Hollywood works. Given the detailed, first of its kind findings in this report, which confirm what far too many have experienced and known for years, we must make a major shift.