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What’s The Leading Cause Of Poor Record Sales

What’s The Leading Cause Of Poor Record Sales? By Rizoh HoustonPress.com ​Last week, the music world laughed up a hiccup as Lil Wayne pranced around the VMA stage in nut-suffocating, Le Tigre-inspired jeggings. While that performance affirmed that Wayne is no fashion guru, his chart performance a week later reminded us that he’s very good

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MTV Skins: Why? (radio interview)

MTV Skins: interview on Blog Talk Radio with Robert Wesley Branch Click to Listen Paul Porter and Lisa Fager on TRWBS February 12 2011

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11 Burning Questions with Paul Porter

Los Angeles Loyolan Danielle Corkhill, News Editor Paul Porter has worked with NBC, BET, and AOL Music among other media corporations. He spoke last week at Loyola Marymount College in Los Angeles, California about the relationship between race and the media News Editor Danielle Corkhill talks to Paul Porter, who who spoke February 5th about

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Industry Ears, Parents Television Council making it hard for media execs

NY DAILY NEWS By Stanley Crouch Direct action has its benefits and its irritation. Paul Porter knows this well. A former programmer for Black Entertainment Television, the infamous BET, he is now a member of Industry Ears, a nonprofit watchdog agency that he co-founded with Lisa Fager in 2004. It is dedicated to cleaning up

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It’s way past time to clean filth of some music videos from TV

Philadelphia Inquirer By George Curry An increasing number of people are fed up with the airing of sexually explicit, violent, degrading, stereotypical music videos on TV, especially during hours when teenagers haven’t turned in for bed. Citizens are fighting back by filing complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, demonstrating in front of the homes of

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