Breaking News: HRC & GLAAD Action, Kobe Bryant Fined $100,000 by NBA
April 13, 2011 by News Desk
Filed under Breaking News, Discrimination, FEATURES
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 The National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern in New York issued the following statement on the http://www.nba.com website regarding Kobe Bryant homophobic slur towards an NBA referee on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in Los Angeles:
“Kobe Bryant’s comment during last night’s game was offensive and inexcusable. While I’m fully aware that basketball is an emotional game, such a distasteful term should never be tolerated. Accordingly, I have fined Kobe $100,000. Kobe and everyone associated with the NBA know that insensitive or derogatory comments are not acceptable and have no place in our game or society.”
Early today Kobe Bryant made the following statement from El Segundo, CA: “What I said last night should not be taken literally. My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period. The words expressed do NOT reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were NOT meant to offend anyone.”
TMZ.com reported that Kobe Bryant appears to mouth the words, “F**king f**got.”
Here is the video that got Kobe Bryant in trouble:
FORBES.COM also reported that Human Rights Campaign issue the following statement: “What a disgrace for Kobe Bryant to use such horribly offensive and distasteful language, especially when millions of people are watching. Hopefully Mr. Bryant will recognize that as a person with such fame and influence, the use of such language not only offends millions of LGBT people around the world, but also perpetuates a culture of discrimination and hate that all of us, most notably Mr. Bryant, should be working to eradicate. Bryant and the Lakers have a responsibility to speak up on this issue immediately. America is watching.”
Not only HRC requested apology from Kobe Bryant also The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issue on 4-13-2011 the following statement on their website “Discriminatory slurs have no place on or off the court,” said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. “Professional sports players need to set a better example for young people who use words like this on the playground and in our schools, creating a climate of intolerance and hostility. The LA Lakers have a responsibility to educate their fans about why this word is unacceptable.”
Kobe Bryant Photo Credit to: Solarpix – PR Photos
GLAAD Photo Credit to: Daniela Hubbard from Daniela Hubbard Photography.
Note: These kind of discrimination statement is not acceptable and we will continue to updated you, because at this time the story is still in development.
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Complete List of Recipients at The 70th Annual Peabody Awards
March 31, 2011 by Press Release
Filed under Awards, Featured, News
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2010, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia campus.
Justified (FX)
FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television
Part morality play, part character study, this engrossing modern-day Western drama sets its showdowns in the wild, wild east of Appalachian Kentucky.
Great Performances: Macbeth (PBS)
THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG, Illuminations Television Ltd.
Director Rupert Goold takes Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy on location to the countryside and the trenches to riveting effect.
Coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill (CNN)
CNN
The science, the economics, the politics, the toll on human livelihoods and animal lives – CNN’s coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster defined comprehensive.
Radiolab (WNYC-FM)
WNYC
Immersive and boundlessly imaginative, the series uses pithy prose and state-of-the-art
sound to illuminate complicated scientific and philosophical subjects.
The Pacific (HBO)
A Playtone and Dreamworks Production in association with HBO Miniseries
The Pacific theater of World War II proves to be gripping theater indeed in this richly detailed miniseries.
Sherlock: A Study in Pink (PBS)
A Hartswood Films Production for BBC CYMRU Wales, Co-produced with Masterpiece
The venerable Victorian sleuth is audaciously updated for our high-tech times, and the game is afoot all the quicker.
Lucia’s Letter (WGCU-FM)
WGCU Public Media
A literal cautionary tale, the harrowing “letter” is a composite of several young Guatemalan women’s enslavement by “coyotes” hired to smuggle them into the United States.
LennoNYC (PBS)
THIRTEEN’S America Masters, Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right, Dakota Group
A portrait of John Lennon’s life and work, after he chose to make New York his home, it’s beautifully composed and lovingly rendered but not blind to his imperfections.
Burma VJ (HBO)
Magic Hour Films in co-production with WG Film, Mediamente, Kamoli Films, The Danish Film Institute and DR TV in association with HBO Documentary Films
The documentary chronicles the heroic ingenuity of underground video journalists (VJs) who captured the 2007 Burmese human-rights protests – and the brutal government retaliation – on handy cams and smuggled the video out to the web and the world.
Men of a Certain Age (TNT)
TNT Originals
A series about three longtime pals, “regular” guys, navigating middle age, it’s comical, poignant and harrowing, sometimes all at once.
Bitter Lessons (WFAA-TV)
WFAA, Dallas
The Dallas station’s investigation exposed abuses by government-funded “career” schools that provide poor training and sometimes leave desperate students deeper in debt than they started.
Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation (NPR/All Things Considered) Youth Radio, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Huffington Post online
A wide-ranging expose of America’s child-sex trade, it was made especially powerful by first-person accounts by teen victims.
Independent Lens: Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian (PBS) Rezolution Pictures, National Film Board of Canada, CBS News Network, ARTE Germany, Documentary Channel Canada, Radio Canada, ARTV, Knowledge Network, APTN, AVRO, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
A Cree filmmaker takes an affectionate but nonetheless pointed look at how movies have portrayed and misrepresented Native Americans over many decades.
The Promised Land with Host Majora Carter (American Public Media Stations) Launch Minneapolis, American Public Media
If there’s such a thing as eye-opening radio, Carter’s series, devoted to helping her audience envision a more just, sustainable world, is it.
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals (HBO)
HBO Sports
Not your average sports biography by a long jump shot, it examines the different cultures from whence these NBA legends sprang, their unusually long rivalry and their unlikely friendship.
Covering Pakistan: War, Flood and Social Issues (NPR )
NPR
Islamabad-based correspondent Julie McCarthy goes beyond the headline disasters, making the country vividly individual with reports on topics like child labor, blasphemy laws and the plight of war widows.
Wonders of the Solar System with Brian Cox (Science Channel) Science Channel, BBC
In this amazing, simulated travelogue, the boyish physicist flies us to the moon and lets us play among the stars. And gawk.
Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes (NPR and npr.org)
NPR
With first-person interviews and computer-assisted records checks, an NPR investigative unit documented how perpetrators of sexual assaults on college campuses often face few or no consequences.
Degrassi: My Body Is a Cage (TeenNick)
TeenNick/Ncredible productions
True to its history, the durable high-school serial’s two-parter about a transgender teen neither trivializes nor overdramatizes its subject
C-SPAN Video Library (cspan.org/videolibrary)
C-SPAN
Every program C-SPAN has shown since 1987, from State of the Union addresses to budget hearings, is now available and searchable online – for free.
My Lai (PBS)
American Experience
The worst atrocity in American military history is given new meaning and significance in the documentary enriched by fresh interviews and never-before-heard audio made by the original Pentagon investigators.
The Moth Radio Hour (Public Radio Stations)
The Moth, Public Radio Exchange, Atlantic Public Media
Storytelling, likely the oldest art, is revered and reinvigorated by this weekly hour for everyday raconteurs.
For Neda (HBO)
Mentorn in association with Antony Thomas Productions for HBO Documentary Films
A powerful portrait of Neda Agha-Soltan, martyr, and the larger Iranian struggle for freedom, this documentary was filmed on the sly and at great risk in Tehran.
Behind the Bail Bond System (NPR/All Things Considered and Morning) NPR
Changes in the bail bond system are already underway as a result of this three-part expose of inequities and conflicts that penalize its poorest clients.
12th & Delaware (HBO)
A Loki Films Production for HBO Documentary Films
A street corner in Ft. Pierce, Florida, where an abortion clinic and a pro-life center face each other, embodies the ongoing clash over reproductive rights in this thoughtful, fair documentary.
Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia (PBS)
Sikelia Productions, Far Hills Pictures in association with America Masters
Director Martin Scorcese reflects on the nature of art’s influence on artists and how the brilliant but controversial Kazan continues to inspire him.
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise (HBO)
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks for HBO Documentary Films
Spike Lee’s team checks up on New Orleans five years after Katrina hit and the levees broke and documents the city’s successes and failures in a video patchwork by turns beautiful, depressing and optimistic.
Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children (BBC Four)
True Vision
Filming undercover with great ingenuity and courage, Xoliswa Sithole and Jezza Newman documented the horrible conditions, especially for the young, in Zimbabwe.
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible (PBS)
Art21, Inc.
The multi-faceted Kentridge is creativity personified, a one-man seminar, and he gave filmmakers from ART21 a veritable all-access pass to his mind and work process.
30 for 30 (ESPN)
ESPN
Commissioned for the sports channel’s 30th anniversary, these 30 diverse documentaries about sports in America, well, they shoot, they score.
POV: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (PBS)
American Documentary, POV, ITVS
A fascinating true-life political thriller, Ellsberg’s remembrance of his historic actions is made even more compelling by the inventive presentation.
Report on a New Generation of Migrant Workers in China (Phoenix InfoNews Channel)
Phoenix Satellite Television Co. Ltd.
The report by Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Television poses hard questions about the ramifications of China’s continuing urban migration.
Reality Check: Where Are the Jobs? (WTHR-TV)
WTHR, Indianapolis
The Indianapolis station’s digging revealed the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s job-creation claims were grossly overstated and that companies given taxincentive to create employment had actually axed workers by the hundreds.
Temple Grandin (HBO)A Ruby Films, Gerson Saines Production in association with HBO Films
Claire Danes is remarkable as the autistic animal-expert and author, and the biography is further enriched by visual creativity that lets viewer occasional glimpse the world as Grandin experiences it.
The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today (WILL-TV)
Jay Rosenstein Productions
A beautifully researched documentary by a Champaign, Illinois, station, it examines a First Amendment case critical to the establishment of separation of church and state in public schools.
The Cost of War: Traumatic Brain Injury; Coming Home a Different Person (www.washingtonpost.com)
A fascinating, poignant multimedia report, it details the experiences of five different wounded soldiers and the science behind their medical treatment.
Who Killed Doc? (KSTP-TV)
KSTP, St. Paul
The St. Paul-Minneapolis station’s investigation of a Minnesota sailor’s ill-explained death in Iraq has the Armed Forces reexamining everything from shower safety to how families of the fallen are notified.
The Wounded Platoon (PBS)
FRONTLINE, Mongoose Pictures
The documentary is a dark, troubling tale of a military health system overwhelmed by psychiatric casualties and of one platoon’s post-traumatic nightmare.
The Good Wife (CBS)
Scott Free Productions, King Size Productions, Small Wishes, CBS Productions
In this densely layered dramatic series, the dutiful wife of a disgraced politician resumes her legal career and finds satisfaction, self-worth and moral quandaries of her own.
About Mission of The Peabody Awards:
The intent of the Peabody Awards is to recognize the most outstanding achievements in electronic media, including radio, television and cable. The competition is also open to entries produced for alternative means of electronic distribution, including corporate video, educational media, home-video release, World Wide Web and CD–ROM. Programs produced and intended for wide theatrical motion picture release are not eligible for a Peabody Award.
The Award is determined by one criterion – “Excellence.” Because submissions are accepted from a wide variety of sources and styles, deliberations seek “Excellence On Its Own Terms.” Each entry is evaluated on the achievement of standards it establishes within its own contexts. Entries are self-selected by those making submissions and as a result the quality of competing works is extraordinarily high. The Peabody Awards are then presented only to “the best of the best.”
About The Peabody Awards:
The Peabodys, the oldest awards in broadcasting, are considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media. The Peabody Awards recognize excellence and meritorious work by radio and television stations, networks, webcasters, producing organizations and individuals. The 16-member Peabody Board is a distinguished panel of television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts. Selection is made by the Board following review by special screening committees of UGA faculty, students, and staff. For more information visit http://www.peabody.uga.edu
Source: Peabody Awards & TMZ Photo: Credit to Peabody Awards
Editor’s Note: Congratulations to all the winners for receiving such great recognition from industry professionals.
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Chris Brown Violent at Good Morning America Studios in New York
March 22, 2011 by News Desk
Filed under Breaking News, Entertainment, Featured
We do not report gossips but this one, it got our attention because Brown have been in a lot of trouble and he got very violet at the Good Morning America studios in New York.
TMZ.com reported on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 that exploded in rage behind the scenes at “Good Morning America” this morning … smashing a window and storming out without a shirt … sources tell TMZ … and it was triggered by on-air questions about the Rihanna incident.
TMZ continue “ABC sources tell TMZ … Brown performed and was interviewed by Robin Roberts live from the Times Square studio when she began asking about the infamous incident.
“Brown tried to redirect the questions to focus on his album — but Roberts continued to ask about Brown’s legal issues stemming from the Rihanna incident.”
“We’re told after the interview, Brown freaked out, storming into his dressing room and screaming so loud, the people in hair and makeup became alarmed and called security.
We’re told Brown was out of control, and one source present tells us he smashed a window in his dressing room, and the glass shattered and some shards fell onto 43rd and Broadway. ABC security tells TMZ … the window was shattered with a chair.
We’re told by the time security rushed the area, Brown had ripped off his shirt and left the building, blowing off another performance he was supposed to do for the ABC website.
And sources say … on his way out of the building, Brown confronted a segment producer, got in his face and stared him down. People from the show got in between Chris and the producer to diffuse the situation.
Remember — Brown is on probation for the felony beating and he’s required to obey all laws.
UPDATE 6:49 AM PT: Brown just tweeted, “I’m so over people bringing this past s**t up!!! Yet we praise Charlie sheen and other celebs for there bulls**t.”
UPDATE 6:59 AM PT: Brown has already deleted the previous tweet … and added a new one that reads, “All my fans!!! This album is for you and only you!!! I’m so tired of everyone else!! Honestly!! I love team breezy!!”
UPDATE 7:48 AM PT: Glass workers just showed up to fix the window.”
Source: TMZ.com, Google.com & ABC News
Photos courtesy of Google.com, TMZ.com & Allen Berezovsky from StarPicsToday & Video courtesy of ABC News
Editor’s Note: Chris Brown next time do not use your cellular to send a text or email your naked picture to your girlfriend. See now it is all over the internet.
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