{"id":66758,"date":"2015-03-31T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66758"},"modified":"2015-03-31T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:30:23","slug":"caring-about-white-people-is-apparently-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66758","title":{"rendered":"Caring About White People Is Apparently A Bad Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/03\/frank-sinatra-hbo-documentary-vice-media-transformers-avatar-star-wars-lord-of-the-rings-1201400803\/\">Mike Fleming writes for Deadline.com<\/a>: &#8220;Deadline ran an article last week that generated controversy and hurt feelings. An unfortunate headline\u2013Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings \u2013 About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?\u2014created a context from which no article could recover. My co-editor-in-chief Nellie Andreeva\u2019s goal was to convey that there was such an uptick of TV pilot casting of people of color that it pinched white actors who\u2019ve historically gotten most of the jobs, and to question if this could last if it was being treated as a fad. All this was undermined by that headline (which we changed after the fact) and a repetition of the word \u201cethnic\u201d that came off cold and insensitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Fleming writes for Deadline.com: &#8220;Deadline ran an article last week that generated controversy and hurt feelings. An unfortunate headline\u2013Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings \u2013 About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?\u2014created a context from which no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66759,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66758\/revisions\/66759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}