2004\'S BEST MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF MIXED RACE PEOPLE, INTERRACIAL COUPLES HONORED BY 1ST ANNUAL MIXED MEDIA WATCH IMAGE AWARDS
Media watchdog organization Mixed Media Watch announces that Jennifer Beals, Showtime\'s The L Word, UPN\'s Girlfriends are among its Image Award honorees.

/Television News Articles/ - February 14, 2005 - New York, NY -- Mixed Media Watch, an organization that seeks to promote more realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of mixed race people, interracial couples and interracial families in the media, today announced the honorees for its 1st annual Mixed Media Watch Image Awards.

The Mixed Media Watch Image Awards recognize efforts by film, television, radio and print media to promote more realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of mixed race people, interracial couples and interracial families.

"Mixed race individuals have become much more visible in the media recently," said Carmen Van Kerckhove, Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch. "Marketers increasingly favor racially ambiguous models in their ad campaigns and many famous actors, musicians and athletes now openly identify themselves as biracial or multiracial."

"But most media representations of mixed race people, interracial couples and interracial families are still too simplistic or sensationalistic," added Jen Chau, the other Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch. "Media images have great cultural power. We hope that the Image Awards will inspire others to emulate and even surpass the work of 2004's honorees."

Below is the complete list of honorees for the 1st annual Mixed Media Watch Image Awards:

Special Honoree: Jennifer Beals
Honorable Mention: The Rock
Outstanding Television Drama Series: The L Word
Outstanding Television Comedy Series: Girlfriends
Outstanding Fiction: Country of Origin, The Love Wife, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Symptomatic
Outstanding Advertising Campaign: Verizon's "The Elliotts"

Mixed Media Watch Image Award honorees were published, released or broadcast between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2004.

For additional information, visit http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/1stimageawards.htm or contact Jen Chau, Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch at team@mixedmediawatch.com or 917-291-5227.

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