January General Meeting
MANAA's next General Meeting is Thursday, January 19th starting at 7:30 PM.
Start off the New Year right by joining the discussion about how to improve the media depiction of Asian Americans at MANAA’s first general meeting of 2012.
Agenda items include:
- Results of MANAA’s meeting with CBS over “Hawaii Five-0” not reflecting the 50th state or its people
- The Asian Pacific American Advisory Council’s response to Comcast’s firing of Michael Chen, President of the Strategic Initiatives Group & Education Nation
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
By David Yeh
After a quest for White Castle burgers and a trip to Guantanamo Bay, the comedy duo of Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) return for a third go around to celebrate (or ruin) the holiest of holidays: Christmas. This isn’t as strong of a film as the first ‘Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle’ nor is it as smart, but it certainly is entertaining through its chaos as the events encountered become even more offensive (in a good way) than the one before.
November General Meeting
Agenda items include:
- Report on MANAA’s/Asian Pacific American Media Coalition’s annual meeting with the President and VPs of Fox regarding diversity
- Reviewing the new/ongoing TV series featuring Asian Americans
- “A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas”
- Cancellation of MANAA’s meeting with CBS over “Hawaii Five-0” not reflecting the 50th state or its people
- Upcoming Report Cards for the TV networks
- Wall Street Journal & L.A. Weekly articles featuring MANAA
- CAPE’s 20th anniversary awards dinner
October General Meeting
Agenda items include:
- Reports on MANAA’s/Asian Pacific American Media Coalition’s annual meetings with the Presidents and VPs of ABC, CBS, and NBC regarding diversity
- Reviewing the new/ongoing TV series featuring Asian Americans including the accented restaurant owner on “2 Broke Girls” and Harry Shum, Jr. finally getting the spotlight on “Glee”
- Upcoming “A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas” preview screening
By the way if you’re interested in writing movie reviews for MANAA’s website, please let us know.
September General Meeting
Agenda items include:
- Fox Sports' "The College Experience" was cancelled after MANAA inquired about one of its web skits denigrating Asian USC students with accents found here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkt7i5_college-x-oschack-visits-usc_spo...
- MANAA's meeting with new NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt, new NBC President Jennifer Salke, and new Diversity chief Craig Robinson
- MANAA's pre-screening of CBS's upcoming series "2 Broke Girls" featuring "Rice Lee"
- Upcoming annual diversity meetings with ABC, CBS, NBC & Fox—need your input
