Word: guild
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...N.A.A.C.P.'s complaint focused largely on minority characters. But the casting disparity was the good news, compared with that in the creative and executive ranks. Nearly all the executives who can approve series are white, and a 1998 report by the Writers Guild of America found that 92% of all black TV writers work for mostly black-cast sitcoms. And again, that's the good news. At least there are black-cast sitcoms to be segregated on, an option other minorities don't have...
...five writers, mostly twentysomethings aspiring to work on sitcoms, are supposed to compose 20 questions a day. They make $1,500 a week and, when the show became a hit, tried to join the Writers Guild, before discovering that game-show writers in the union make only $1,100. Then they considered forming their own union until they found that there were lots of people who could write multiple-choice questions...