首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
How did the company come to produce a record glorifying the murder of police, which is entitled Cop Killer by the rapper Ice-T o
How did the company come to produce a record glorifying the murder of police, which is entitled Cop Killer by the rapper Ice-T o
admin
2009-04-26
104
问题
How did the company come to produce a record glorifying the murder of police, which is entitled Cop Killer by the rapper Ice-T on the album Boby Count? The album is released by Warner Bros. Records, part of the Time Warner media and entertainment conglomerate.
In a Wall Street Journal oped piece laying out the company’s position, Time Warner co CEO Gerald Levin makes two defenses. First, Ice-T’s Cop Killer is misunderstood. "It doesn’t induce or glorify violence...It’s his fictionalized attempt to get inside a character’s head...Cop Killer is no more a call for gunning down the police than Frankie and Johnny is a summons for jilted lovers to shoot one another.’ Instead of "finding ways to silence the messenger", we should be "heeding the anguished cry contained in his message".
This defense is self-contradictory. Frankie and Johnny does not pretend to have a political "message" that must be "heeded". If Cop Killer has a message, it is that the murder of policemen is a justified response to police brutality. And not in self-defense, but in premeditated acts of revenge against random cops. Killing policemen is a good thing—that is the plain meaning of the song, and no "larger understanding" of black culture, the rage of the streets or anything else can explain it away. As in much of today’s popular music, the line between performer and performance is purposely blurred. These are political sermonettes clearly intended to support the sentiments being expressed. Tracy Marrow (Ice-T) himself has said, "I scared the police, and they need to be scared". That seems clear.
The company’s second defense of Cop Killer is the classic one of free expression: "We stand for creative freedom. We believe that the worth of what an artist or journalist has to say does not depend on preapproval from a government official or a corporate censor".
Of course Ice-T has the right to say whatever he wants. But that doesn’t require any company to provide him an Outlet. And it doesn’t relieve a company of responsibility for the messages it chooses to promote. Judgment is not "censorship". Many an "anguished cry" goes unrecorded. This one was recorded, and promoted, because a successful artist under contract wanted to record it. Nothing wrong with making money, but a company cannot take the money and run from the responsibility.
The founder of Time, Henry Luce, would have scorned the notion that his company provided a value-free forum for the exchange of ideas. In Luce’s system, editors were supposed to make value judgments and promote the truth as they saw it.
选项
A、praising acts of violence against police.
B、seeking to earn enormous sums of money.
C、working under contract with a company.
D、exercising revenge against random cops.
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/2ha4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Politiciansshouldneverlose______oftheneedsofthepeopletheyrepresent.
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoususers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoususers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoususers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
TheInternetaffordsanonymitytoususers,ablessingtoprivacyandfreedomofspeech.Butthatveryanonymityisalsobehind
Readthefollowingtextandchoosethebestanswerfromtherightcolumntocompleteeachoftheunfinishedstatementsinthele
SupposeyouarethemarketingmanagerofABCCompany.YouwanttoinviteProf.Whitetodeliveraspeechforthebanquetthatcl
Musicisamystery.Itisuniquetothehumanrace:nootherspeciesproduceselaboratesoundfornoparticularreason.Ithasb
Afterclashesbetweenriotpoliceandprotesters,workersattheKeihinHotelinTokyowereforciblyejectedonJanuary25th.Th
随机试题
某地利用调查表对抽取的2000人进行了高血压的行为危险因素监测和血压的测定。其中180人自报高血压而且测量结果也显示为高血压,40人血压测量结果显示为高血压而自报常,20人自报高血压而测量结果正常。某市开展的行为危险因素监测采用如下方法:每个月随机抽取
具有支撑气管作用的重要软骨
大量不保留灌肠禁用于
采用静力压桩法施工时,选用压桩设备的设计承载力宜大于压桩阻力的()。
《建设工程质量管理条例》规定,建设单位将工程发包给不具有相应资质等级单位的,责令改正,处以()的罚款。
金融期货合约是约定在未来时间以事先协定价格买卖某种金融工具的标准化合约,标准化的条款包括()。Ⅰ.标的资产Ⅱ.交易单位Ⅲ.交割时间Ⅳ.交易价格
下列各项,()不属于企业期间费用。
公安机关预防、制止和惩治违法犯罪活动的任务主要包括( )。
AlthoughTomwasawarethatitwouldbe(i)______todisplayannoyancepubliclyatthesalesconference,hecouldnot(ii)______
A、Thinkingbeforespeaking.B、Adoptingempathyduringcommunication.C、Focusingonthepresent.D、Listeningattentively.C讲座中提到,
最新回复
(
0
)