Media Questions Of The Week

1. Why is the TV show Scandal going on a three-week hiatus especially if the ratings are growing and it’s one of the most Tweeted about shows?

2. If Rick Ross is truly apologetic for his lyrics about rape in the song “U.O.N.E.O.” then why won’t he donate money to something like prosecutor Kym Worthy’s Detroit Rape Kit Initiative?

3. Has Janet Jackson converted to Islam and retired from the entertainment industry?



Media Questions Of The Week

1. Was the The Onion’s Tweet calling young actress Quvenzhane Willis the C-Word really satire or just plain offensive?

2. Why did Jermaine Jackson change his name to JackSUN?

3. How come the mainstream media didn’t already know that Janet Jackson was married?

4. Isn’t it funny how Tyler the Creator photobombed Donald Trump?



Media Questions Of The Week

1. Will Janet Jackson’s marriage to a Muslim man stop from her from being “Nasty” i.e. from making music?

2. Why didn’t younger R&B musicians pay for any funerals of older blues legends like Etta James if The Rolling Stones did?

3. What did Quentin Tarantino mean by saying that “Roots” was inauthentic? Why didn’t he specify what was “inauthentic” about it? And even though “Django Unchained” was enjoyable was the N word really needed all those times?

4. Is it really surprising to learn that Youtube had to discipline Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG and RCA Records for using fraudulent view-counting techniques to boost their video view numbers?



Media Questions Of The Week


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1. Isn’t The Dream telling the truth when he talks about the world’s fascination with white people doing soul music and Blacks being pigeonholed into pop? And doesn’t it prove that the bottom line at major labels is not just money but whiteness?

2. Why did someone give Janet Jackson a pickanniny type doll as a tour gift if we live in a "post-racial" world?

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3. How could Whitney Houston have died of an “accidental drowning” if the first reports of her death said she did not have “a sufficient amount of water in her lungs?”

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4. How can Gene Simmons criticize Rihanna’s music for not “being real” when Kiss is nothing more than a great marketing plan, gimmicks and mediocre musicality? Compared to Jimi Hendrix, Kiss is not real.