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...heat from gay activists for his violently homophobic lyrics. His song Damn includes the lyrics, "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays." And the activism seems to be working. A campaign called Stop Murder Music, launched by London-based OutRage, forced MTV to cancel an Aug. 28 performance in Miami by the Grammy Award--winning reggae artist. With the help of OutRage, activists in New York City are protesting performances by Beenie Man and three other artists scheduled for Sept. 3. In all, 30 Beenie Man and other reggae artists' shows...
...financing for a scripted series. Enter MindShare, a media buyer that wanted to move its advertising clients inside the creative process by producing and underwriting the costs of a new show. It seemed a match made in media heaven. But there were concerns: What if ABC wanted to cancel the show? And how much commercial airtime could the network retain to sell to other advertisers during the program? Network executives also worried that audiences would be turned off if the show seemed to be too commercial. But Mark Pedowitz, executive vice president of ABC Entertainment Television Group, saw a chance...
...Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in April when three Japanese civilians were kidnapped in Iraq, but he refused to withdraw his 550 soldiers as their captors insisted (the hostages were later freed). Likewise, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun last month would not submit to terrorists' demands that he cancel plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq; as a result, a South Korean contractor who had been kidnapped in Iraq was beheaded...
BRITNEY SPEARS Because of a knee injury, the pop tart had to cancel the tour she launched in March. She was filling the seats until then...
Getting The Message If the Russian media still needed a signal on how it would fare during President Vladimir Putin's second term, it came in loud and clear last Tuesday. Close to midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov...