Posts Tagged ‘Industry Ears’

Today in The Mo’Kelly Report, Mo’Kelly speaks with former BET Program Director

Paul Porter

and present media watchdog Paul Porter of industryears.com to discuss the evolving controversy surrounding the new malt liquor beverage “Blast,” its celebrity spokesperson Snoop Dogg and the questionable media campaign.

As it is marketed in only minority communities with fruity flavors such as strawberry-lemonade, raspberry-lemonade watermelon and grape; many activists including Porter are of the opinion that Colt 45 is using non-traditional media to target underage drinkers and hook them on a sugar and alcohol-laden product.

Presently, Attorneys General from 17 different states have stated they will support legislation which would ban the product.

(Now if we could just get them to cancel the rest of the network altogether…then we’d REALLY be making some progress. It’s not just what gets canceled, but what ends up taking its place too. Chris Rock said it best , a woman could leave a man because he couldn’t keep his lights on…and end up with a man who puts her lights out. Change is inevitable, progress is optional.)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kelly
Oliver (ext. 140) or

October 9, 2008
Megan Franko (ext. 148) at (703) 683-5004

PTC, Enough is Enough, National Congress of Black Women, and Industry
Ears Praise Cancellation of BET’s Rap City

LOS ANGELES (October 9, 2008) – The Parents Television Council, the
Enough is Enough Campaign for Corporate Responsibility, the National
Congress of Black Women, and Industry Ears jointly praised the
announcement that BET has cancelled the music video show, Rap City.
This move comes on the heels of a recent announcement that BET President
Reginald Hudlin resigned.

Earlier this year, the PTC, in partnership with the Enough is Enough
Campaign, undertook a research study regarding BET’s and MTV’s daytime
music video programming. The study concluded that as recently as March
2008, children who watched BET’s Rap City and 106 & Park and MTV’s
Sucker Free on MTV were bombarded with adult content – sexual, violent,
profane or obscene – once every 38 seconds. PTC and the Enough is
Enough Campaign announced the findings of the study at the National
Press Club in Washington DC with the participation of Industry Ears and
the National Congress of Black Women.

The following is a joint statement by PTC President Tim Winter; Enough
is Enough Campaign Founder Dr. Delman Coates; National Congress of Black
Women Chair Dr. E. Faye Williams; and Industry Ears Co-Founder Paul
Porter:

“We are heartened by the recent changes at BET, and we are gratified
that our collective efforts were a catalyst for this positive change.
It is apparent that our voices were heard by the public, by the
corporate sponsors who underwrite television programming and by BET
network executives. Parents across this country want a cessation of
marketing harmful, graphic and offensive images to children. But let us
be clear about our goal: we are not trying to get a particular show
cancelled or a particular executive fired. Rather, our goal is a
reduction in the harmful and offensive messages on BET and MTV
programming – especially when the programs are targeted at children. We
have called for the networks to take responsibility for their products,
and this program’s cancellation is evidence of a step in the right
direction.”

To see more results from the BET/MTV study, please visit
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2008/0410.asp.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

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(Now if we could just get them to cancel the rest of the network altogether…then we’d REALLY be making some progress. It’s not just what gets canceled, but what ends up taking its place too. Chris Rock said it best , a woman could leave a man because he couldn’t keep his lights on…and end up with a man who puts her lights out. Change is inevitable, progress is optional.)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kelly
Oliver (ext. 140) or

October 9, 2008
Megan Franko (ext. 148) at (703) 683-5004

PTC, Enough is Enough, National Congress of Black Women, and Industry
Ears Praise Cancellation of BET’s Rap City

LOS ANGELES (October 9, 2008) – The Parents Television Council, the
Enough is Enough Campaign for Corporate Responsibility, the National
Congress of Black Women, and Industry Ears jointly praised the
announcement that BET has cancelled the music video show, Rap City.
This move comes on the heels of a recent announcement that BET President
Reginald Hudlin resigned.

Earlier this year, the PTC, in partnership with the Enough is Enough
Campaign, undertook a research study regarding BET’s and MTV’s daytime
music video programming. The study concluded that as recently as March
2008, children who watched BET’s Rap City and 106 & Park and MTV’s
Sucker Free on MTV were bombarded with adult content – sexual, violent,
profane or obscene – once every 38 seconds. PTC and the Enough is
Enough Campaign announced the findings of the study at the National
Press Club in Washington DC with the participation of Industry Ears and
the National Congress of Black Women.

The following is a joint statement by PTC President Tim Winter; Enough
is Enough Campaign Founder Dr. Delman Coates; National Congress of Black
Women Chair Dr. E. Faye Williams; and Industry Ears Co-Founder Paul
Porter:

“We are heartened by the recent changes at BET, and we are gratified
that our collective efforts were a catalyst for this positive change.
It is apparent that our voices were heard by the public, by the
corporate sponsors who underwrite television programming and by BET
network executives. Parents across this country want a cessation of
marketing harmful, graphic and offensive images to children. But let us
be clear about our goal: we are not trying to get a particular show
cancelled or a particular executive fired. Rather, our goal is a
reduction in the harmful and offensive messages on BET and MTV
programming – especially when the programs are targeted at children. We
have called for the networks to take responsibility for their products,
and this program’s cancellation is evidence of a step in the right
direction.”

To see more results from the BET/MTV study, please visit
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2008/0410.asp.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Visit Mo’Kelly’s GIFT SHOP HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.

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The game is changing…BET, MTV just might have to change right along with it.
Check out the video HERE

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.

The game is changing…BET, MTV just might have to change right along with it.
Check out the video HERE

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.mokellyreport.blogspot.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at mokellyreport@sbcglobal.net and he welcomes all commentary.