Industry Ears

By Mike Stocke The recent final of Britain’s Got Talent was broadcast on a Saturday evening, featured two finalists who were 11 and 12 years old, and was watched by millions of children of about the same age or even younger. Yet the producers still thought it appropriate that the guest-star Nicole Scherzinger, formerly of

By Lisa Fager Bediako CNN.com (CNN) — Rihanna’s “Man Down” video was the motivation for Industry Ears — a media watchdog group I co-founded — to recently join forces with the Parents Television Council to hold media corporations, in this case Black Entertainment Television, accountable. We argued that the graphic violence aired in the video

While BET and Rihanna are defending the “Man Down” video. The facts regarding BET’s Standards and Practices are clear that the goal post have moved simply to secure BET Award show talent. Facts: BET did not play Rihanna’s Russian Roulette or S&M videos. BET Standards and Practices did not view “Man Down” before the BET

Rihanna ‘Man Down’ Video Draws Fire for Murdering Abuser The Parents Television Council is condemning Rihanna’s latest music video, saying it depicts the singer in an “implied rape scene with a man whom she later guns down in an act of premeditated murder.” The opening scene of the singer’s “Man Down” music video shows her

Paul Porter Industry Ears