Comments on: Hot ghetto masses http://www.mp285.com/2007/07/hot-ghetto-masses/ wide world. in a web. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: John http://www.mp285.com/2007/07/hot-ghetto-masses/#comment-33 John Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:30:46 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/hot-bullshit/#comment-33 I'm guessing you've seen this? <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_en_tv/tv_bet_hot_ghetto_mess_1" rel="nofollow">Bye Hot Ghetto Mess!</a> Alas. Sometimes capital works. I’m guessing you’ve seen this?

Bye Hot Ghetto Mess!

Alas. Sometimes capital works.

]]> By: marisa http://www.mp285.com/2007/07/hot-ghetto-masses/#comment-32 marisa Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:57:47 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/hot-bullshit/#comment-32 <p>You know, elsewhere, the CEO of BET has been known to defend her station's programming decisions by claiming that she's in the business of making money. It's funny how there's this space that allows a kind of lip-service (C-SPAN), but that such spaces seldom overlap with spaces in which people must take real responsibility for the impact of their decisions. It seems like, in the world of media/popular representation, real allowances are made for saying right and doing wrong.</p> You know, elsewhere, the CEO of BET has been known to defend her station’s programming decisions by claiming that she’s in the business of making money. It’s funny how there’s this space that allows a kind of lip-service (C-SPAN), but that such spaces seldom overlap with spaces in which people must take real responsibility for the impact of their decisions. It seems like, in the world of media/popular representation, real allowances are made for saying right and doing wrong.

]]> By: apostropha http://www.mp285.com/2007/07/hot-ghetto-masses/#comment-31 apostropha Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:35:47 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/hot-bullshit/#comment-31 Reading this description and the post over at Jack and Jill reminded me of a panel discussion on HIV/AIDS I saw a couple years ago on C-SPAN (I think). One of the panelists was Sheila Johnson, the woman who co-founded BET with her husband Robert back in the day. Johnson kept going on about pop culture's pressure on young women to be sexual/sexually active . . . although her points were well-spoken and well-taken, I couldn't help but remember that she helped to found the network that now shows such gems as "Tip Drill" and "P-Poppin." Reading this description and the post over at Jack and Jill reminded me of a panel discussion on HIV/AIDS I saw a couple years ago on C-SPAN (I think). One of the panelists was Sheila Johnson, the woman who co-founded BET with her husband Robert back in the day. Johnson kept going on about pop culture’s pressure on young women to be sexual/sexually active . . . although her points were well-spoken and well-taken, I couldn’t help but remember that she helped to found the network that now shows such gems as “Tip Drill” and “P-Poppin.”

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