{"id":2123,"date":"2015-09-07T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-09-07T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:54:13","slug":"glaad-publishes-television-guide-to-lgbt-characters-cancels-future-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2123","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD publishes television guide to LGBT characters, cancels future reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past week, GLAAD released their annual<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/files\/GLAAD-2015-NRI.pdf\"> Network Responsibility Index.<\/a> This index has for the last nine years been a barometers for the quantity and quality of LGBT representation by different television providers. This year, Fox became the first major network to receive an A+ score, and almost?every network examined received a grade of at least adequate. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/09\/03\/mission-accomplished-glaad-discontinues-report-on-tvs-lgbt-characters\/\">PinkNews:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GLAAD CEO &amp; President Sarah Kate Ellis said: ?The ninth edition of the NRI marks the first time in the report?s history that a major broadcast network ? FOX ? received an ?Excellent? as a grade.<\/p>\n<p>?This milestone highlights real change across the media landscape ? especially considering that the network received a ?Failing? grade in the NRI?s first two editions.?<\/p>\n<p>She added: ?GLAAD?s Network Responsibility Index has helped reshape the television landscape, inspiring LGBT characters and storylines that move acceptance forward.<\/p>\n<p>?As representations of LGBT people in the media continue to rise in number, pushing television networks to make those representations more diverse is more crucial than ever. This requires a different set of tools than the NRI provides, and as such GLAAD will shift focus to its annual TV diversity and transgender reports.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman This past week, GLAAD released their annual Network Responsibility Index. This index has for the last nine years been a barometers for the quantity and quality of LGBT representation by different television providers. This year, Fox became the first major network to receive an A+ score, and almost?every network examined received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,57],"tags":[337,338,110,339],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note","tag-glaad","tag-network-responsibility-index","tag-report","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}