Rihanna’s new video for ‘Man Down’ premiered on BET and has drawn criticism from the Parents Television Council. The source of the compliant is the scene in which Rihanna shoots and kills a rapist in a crowded train station…
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Rihanna described as the video as “empowering” and tweeted to her followers that the video has a “very strong underlying message 4 girls like me.” The PTC doesn’t agree…
“Man Down’ is an inexcusable, shock-only, shoot-and-kill theme song. In my 30 years of viewing BET, I have never witnessed such a cold, calculated execution of murder in primetime. Viacom’s standards and practices department has reached another new low,” Paul Porter, co-founder of Industry Ears and a former voice of BET, said in a statement. “If Chris Brown shot a woman in his new video and BET premiered it, the world would stop. Rihanna should not get a pass and BET should know better. The video is far from broadcast worthy.”
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