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Many prominent media critics, including Public Enemy rapper Chuck D,[1] journalist George Curry,[2] Howard University,[3] writer Keith Boykin,[4] comic book writer/artist/editor Christopher Priest,[5] filmmaker Spike Lee[6] and writer/cartoonist Aaron McGruder of The Boondocks, have protested BET's programming and actions. One of the most commonly-heard complaints is the fact that BET's programming is mostly music entertainment, particularly Hip-hop and rap music, and does not focus on the public affairs of the black community. This criticism expanded in the light of Viacom's cutbacks[7] of BET's public affairs department, which resulted in the firing of BET Tonight talk show host and social commentator Tavis Smiley in March 2001,[8][9] and the cancellations of the youth panel forum Teen Summit and morning news broadcast Lead Story in 2002.
Eminem was one of the first artists to have one of his videos banned on BET after protests from Michael Jackson, Steve Harvey and others after the release of "Just Lose It", a video that parodied and mocked Michael Jackson's numerous plastic surgeries and a 1984 accident where Jackson was severely burned on his scalp while filming a commercial for Pepsi. The response backfired after critics stated that Eminem's video parody is far tamer than Nelly's "Tip Drill", a video that makes derogatory references as well as degrading images of women, although this video airs after-hours on BET Uncut along with more provocative videos. 2004 saw BET refuse to play the De La Soul music video "Shopping Bags", claiming that De La Soul were no longer relevant to their audience. BET's actions outraged many, who felt that the television network was outright disrespecting one of hip hop's legendary groups.[10] In 2005, BET banned Little Brother's video "Lovin' It" from the album The Minstrel Show. BET's program director commented that this was because the video was "too intelligent" for their target audience. However on the music section of their website BET decided to show the video as part of the group being a new and upcoming group.[11]
The channel has been scrutinized by members of the Black community who feel that the channel perpetuates harmful Black stereotypes by primarily airing hip-hop videos that often have misogynistic, materialistic, and/or violent themes. As a result, BET heavily censors suggestive content from the videos that it airs, often with entire verses removed from certain rap videos. Detractors are also quick to point out the irony they see in the network's choice to also show strong religious programming once a week, although they fail to realize that religious programming also airs Monday through Saturday on the network from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. (EST) in addition to the Sunday programming. Some educational programming like Season of the Tiger and College Hill that display black people in an intelligent, positive point of view have also aired on the channel. Not long ago people began referring to acronym BET standing for "Black Exploitation Television".
A 2004 incident on Fox News Channel noted BET only aired an increasing number of raunchy music videos played during a continuous time period on Saturdays, where more viewers of the younger generation are known to watch, and forced host Bill O'Reilly to discuss the issue with a host, who had been let go by MTV in its takeover of BET, in a debate with BET staff members.
The PBS documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, an episode of the program Independent Lens directed and hosted by Byron Hurt that aired October 10, 2006, featured the annual Spring Bling festival held in March 2003 in Miami, Florida sponsored by BET. It included interviews with some of the young black attendees at the festival, in part to expose the bad influence of the hyper-masculine, sexual, and violent values in mainstream hip-hop music. It also quoted a criticism against BET by Public Enemy rapper Chuck D, and featured a brief interview with BET President of Entertainment Reginald Hudlin, who walked away when asked by Hurt about how BET is creating negative stereotypes of black people.
BET has been criticized by some Christian evangelicals not primarily for music videos, but for its morning religious lineup. Each morning, BET broadcasts evangelical TV shows, and hosts include Robert Tilton, Don Stewart, and Peter Popoff, who have been criticized for their money-brings-miracles theology and who have had spats with the law (Popoff's ministry's tax-exempt status was recently revoked in Canada).
BET was also criticized in 2005 for naming its "Man of the Year" Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam.[12]
In 2005, BET allegedly released to employees a list of banned music videos and artists deemed "too intelligent" and not relevant to its intended audience of young black teenagers.[citation needed] This list included Hip-Hop acts such as Dead Prez, Little Brother, Talib Kweli, and others. However, BET has given airplay to the Nas video "Hip-Hop is Dead", which is critical of modern trends in hip-hop, and the song was performed live on 106 & Park on December 18, 2006.[13] "Runaway Love", the current single by Ludacris featuring Mary J. Blige, is another example of a more intelligent type of video promoted on the channel, as the video takes on the issue of runaway youth. Therefore, it can also be inferred that BET can play allegedly "intelligent" music videos given the artist's previous success and relations with the network, as done toward Nas and Ludacris.
The second prominent African-American television network TV One has been competing with BET. Viewers of BET that are unfavorble to the networks becoming more rap-oriented have turned to TV One. Since then BET has introduced more inspirational programming.
Courtesy of Wikipedia. I forgot to get the website, but I'm pretty sure it's http://www.wikipedia.com/BET or something like that.
--Whit
Many prominent media critics, including Public Enemy rapper Chuck D,[1] journalist George Curry,[2] Howard University,[3] writer Keith Boykin,[4] comic book writer/artist/editor Christopher Priest,[5] filmmaker Spike Lee[6] and writer/cartoonist Aaron McGruder of The Boondocks, have protested BET's programming and actions. One of the most commonly-heard complaints is the fact that BET's programming is mostly music entertainment, particularly Hip-hop and rap music, and does not focus on the public affairs of the black community. This criticism expanded in the light of Viacom's cutbacks[7] of BET's public affairs department, which resulted in the firing of BET Tonight talk show host and social commentator Tavis Smiley in March 2001,[8][9] and the cancellations of the youth panel forum Teen Summit and morning news broadcast Lead Story in 2002.
Eminem was one of the first artists to have one of his videos banned on BET after protests from Michael Jackson, Steve Harvey and others after the release of "Just Lose It", a video that parodied and mocked Michael Jackson's numerous plastic surgeries and a 1984 accident where Jackson was severely burned on his scalp while filming a commercial for Pepsi. The response backfired after critics stated that Eminem's video parody is far tamer than Nelly's "Tip Drill", a video that makes derogatory references as well as degrading images of women, although this video airs after-hours on BET Uncut along with more provocative videos. 2004 saw BET refuse to play the De La Soul music video "Shopping Bags", claiming that De La Soul were no longer relevant to their audience. BET's actions outraged many, who felt that the television network was outright disrespecting one of hip hop's legendary groups.[10] In 2005, BET banned Little Brother's video "Lovin' It" from the album The Minstrel Show. BET's program director commented that this was because the video was "too intelligent" for their target audience. However on the music section of their website BET decided to show the video as part of the group being a new and upcoming group.[11]
The channel has been scrutinized by members of the Black community who feel that the channel perpetuates harmful Black stereotypes by primarily airing hip-hop videos that often have misogynistic, materialistic, and/or violent themes. As a result, BET heavily censors suggestive content from the videos that it airs, often with entire verses removed from certain rap videos. Detractors are also quick to point out the irony they see in the network's choice to also show strong religious programming once a week, although they fail to realize that religious programming also airs Monday through Saturday on the network from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. (EST) in addition to the Sunday programming. Some educational programming like Season of the Tiger and College Hill that display black people in an intelligent, positive point of view have also aired on the channel. Not long ago people began referring to acronym BET standing for "Black Exploitation Television".
A 2004 incident on Fox News Channel noted BET only aired an increasing number of raunchy music videos played during a continuous time period on Saturdays, where more viewers of the younger generation are known to watch, and forced host Bill O'Reilly to discuss the issue with a host, who had been let go by MTV in its takeover of BET, in a debate with BET staff members.
The PBS documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, an episode of the program Independent Lens directed and hosted by Byron Hurt that aired October 10, 2006, featured the annual Spring Bling festival held in March 2003 in Miami, Florida sponsored by BET. It included interviews with some of the young black attendees at the festival, in part to expose the bad influence of the hyper-masculine, sexual, and violent values in mainstream hip-hop music. It also quoted a criticism against BET by Public Enemy rapper Chuck D, and featured a brief interview with BET President of Entertainment Reginald Hudlin, who walked away when asked by Hurt about how BET is creating negative stereotypes of black people.
BET has been criticized by some Christian evangelicals not primarily for music videos, but for its morning religious lineup. Each morning, BET broadcasts evangelical TV shows, and hosts include Robert Tilton, Don Stewart, and Peter Popoff, who have been criticized for their money-brings-miracles theology and who have had spats with the law (Popoff's ministry's tax-exempt status was recently revoked in Canada).
BET was also criticized in 2005 for naming its "Man of the Year" Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam.[12]
In 2005, BET allegedly released to employees a list of banned music videos and artists deemed "too intelligent" and not relevant to its intended audience of young black teenagers.[citation needed] This list included Hip-Hop acts such as Dead Prez, Little Brother, Talib Kweli, and others. However, BET has given airplay to the Nas video "Hip-Hop is Dead", which is critical of modern trends in hip-hop, and the song was performed live on 106 & Park on December 18, 2006.[13] "Runaway Love", the current single by Ludacris featuring Mary J. Blige, is another example of a more intelligent type of video promoted on the channel, as the video takes on the issue of runaway youth. Therefore, it can also be inferred that BET can play allegedly "intelligent" music videos given the artist's previous success and relations with the network, as done toward Nas and Ludacris.
The second prominent African-American television network TV One has been competing with BET. Viewers of BET that are unfavorble to the networks becoming more rap-oriented have turned to TV One. Since then BET has introduced more inspirational programming.
Courtesy of Wikipedia. I forgot to get the website, but I'm pretty sure it's http://www.wikipedia.com/BET or something like that.
--Whit
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She once explained in an interview that she had been very lucky getting where she is. That just because she was able to make it without a proper school education does not mean that others can and that it is far better to get education than to count on sheer incredible luck!
I also found Snoop Dog serving the ganster and pimp image but in the movies I saw him in the characters he portrait were always losers - but pimp/ganster losers. (...by the way only supporting charcters)
So some are well aware of their influence and handle the stereotypes they may present with care even if it is not always obvious.
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Very interesting. So what are your views on this, are you for BET or against it?