Industry Ears

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

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

Blast Colt 45: New Media, Same Old Tricks Why the media-watchdog group Industry Ears is firing back at a despicable new malt liquor campaign that it says targets our kids. By: Natalie Hopkinson | Posted: April 21, 2011 from TheRoot.com http://www.theroot.com/views/blast-colt-45-new-media-same-old-tricks Once upon a time, getting urban youths hooked on your product was a fairly

FROM NPR – All Things Considered “How do you feel about strip clubs?” That was their opening line. My colleagues Sara Sarasohn and Zoe Chace wanted to know if I’d be willing to go to Atlanta to report on how hip-hop records are broken, or launched, in strip clubs. Truth is, I’d never been to

Wants to update almost two-decades old report on effects of hate speech, press Congress for money to do so By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, January 10, 2011 Prompted by the shootings in Arizona over the weekend and ensuing national conversation about the role of violent rhetoric in politics and the media, the National