ilgreven:

kontextmaschine:

So the thing about Family Guy’s recurring “asian reporter Tricia Takanawa” and “Blaccuweather” jokes is that FCC recertification required local stations to prove they were “serving the community”

and for a while (like tapering off a bit under Clinton, when midcentury liberalism finally washed out of the American administrative state) identity-organized pressure groups would hassle them over that and part of how the stations would prove was by putting colored faces in their main self-produced output, local news

in secondary roles

A more contemporary parody was Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinal from “Married With Children”.