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ABC's 20/20 Focuses on Hollywood Stereotyping of Italian Americans
Press
Contact: Kylie Cafiero, (202) 547-2900 kcafiero@osia.org
WASHINGTON,
D.C. - September 7, 2006 -
The ABC news magazine, 20/20 will explore how Hollywood stereotypes Italian Americans tomorrow, Friday,
Sept. 8 at 10 PM Eastern
Standard Time during the program's 2006 season premiere.
The
Order Sons of Italy
in America (OSIA)
provided the program's
producers with statistics, reports and concrete examples of how the US entertainment industry stereotypes Italian Americans.
The
Sons of Italy deputy
executive director,
Dona De Sanctis, also
did an on-camera interview
for the segment that
was filmed at ABC’s
studios in New York
City in August.
"Although
cable networks have
occasionally focused
on this issue, to
our knowledge this
is the first time
that a broadcast
network is calling
attention to this
problem on a primetime
television program
that will be seen
coast to coast by
millions of viewers,"
says
OSIA National President
Vincent
Sarno.
OSIA urges
all interested
in this issue
to
see the program
and then to contact
20/20 host
John
Stossel and the
show's
producers on message
boards found at
the program's
webpage, http://abcnews.go.com/2020/.
E-mail addresses
are found there
as well.
OSIA is the largest and oldest national organization for men and women of Italian
descent in the
United States.
Established in
1905, OSIA has
more than 600,000
members and supporters
and a network
of more than
700 chapters coast
to coast.
OSIA works at the community, national and international levels to promote the
heritage and
culture
of an estimated
26 million Italian
Americans, the
nation’s
fifth largest
ethnic group,
according to
the U.S. Census
Bureau. To learn
more, visit
OSIA at www.osia.org.
Click
here to read the transcript from the 20/20 report.
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