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...this day and age, one must take logical precautions around children lest they end up sharing Jackson’s fate. According to MTV reporter Jennifer Vineyard, Jackson’s former friend Uri Gellar even claims to have advised him not to invite children into his bedroom—not because he believed he was guilty of wrongdoing, but because “the behavior is unacceptable to the outside world.” Regardless of what happened in the bedroom, it’s undeniable that Jackson wouldn’t be facing these charges if he hadn?...
...colleague. "It's not my fault that your company owes me $85,000," he says. Dash flicks the phone shut and continues. "We have to come out with something--maybe a 'Posh Spice Is Dead' mix tape. I refuse to make our culture look stupid to get on MTV...
...each year to students seeking internships with senators, representatives, government officials and “mainstream” political organizations. Included in the list of the IOP’s sponsored summer internships is a position working in MTV’s Strategic Partnerships Office. Apparently, even working at MTV is more worthy of IOP funding than grassroots mobilization and protest...
...Westinghouse (which had acquired CBS a year earlier). He became CEO of CBS in January 1999 and within a year persuaded Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone to buy CBS for $40 billion. Now, as president and COO of Viacom, Karmazin presides over a portfolio whose holdings include MTV, UPN, Paramount Pictures and Simon & Schuster and whose revenues in 2002 were $24.6 billion. With a stable roster of executives and an A-minus credit rating, Viacom is one of the best-positioned giants in the media industry. It's also one of the most profitable, earning $2.2 billion...
Which was the real Shakur? Was he the congenial fellow chatting with his MTV confessor Tabitha Soren and explaining cultural inflections? ("Niggers is the guys strung up by a rope during a lynching. Niggaz is the guys walking past the velvet rope on their way into the club.") Or The west coast warrior exchanging rhetoric and artillery in dissing contests with his bitter rivals, East Coast hip-hoppers Biggie Smalls and Puffy Combs? Shakur had been an actor since childhood and showed real gifts in the films Juice and Gridlock'd. Maybe Thug Tupac was one more fictional character, which...