Celeb News: The media's treatment of Charlie Sheen vs. Chris Brown - Page 3

Cap10Planet

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Originally posted by NE.

Mel Gibson is still just as big, all he did was get a slap on the wrist. And Imus was only temporarily fired because the network didn't want to look bad for keeping him around. He's BACK on the air.

I'm sorry, but I'm still not seeing your point here.

Mel Gibson is not "big" anymore. What was the last extremely successful film he has come out with in recent history?

And Chris is BACK on Pop radio. Chris is back promoting his music and getting hits. He is back on the charts. His career is doing fine and dandy and he is being accepted by the public again. The argument is, why does he keep getting flack for his past issues? But truth be told, he isn't doing himself any favors by acting out like this. He's giving people even more reason to slaughter him in the media.

musicman27

Chris Brown defenders truly baffle me.

This clown continues to show the public that he is reckless and violent and yet people want to blame everyone else just like his dumb ass is doing.

bobbymfw

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Originally posted by NE.

Let me use Rap music as an example. Eminem is a white rapper. He has so many songs about violence towards women and has even made attacks against popular figures like Mariah Carey and even made a song about kiling his ex-wife. So along with this and his excessive usage of the words "bitch" and "****", he still continues to sweep the Grammy's and reviews because his lyrics are praised as a form of "artistic expression". But if it's a Black rapper doing the same thing, they're just considered "yet another ghetto n*gga from the hood talking the same old ignorant ****"

Eminem received a ton of backlash over a decade ago for those things, though. The reason why he gets so much praise has a lot to do with the fact that he raps about things that other rappers don't and when he uses language like that it's not gratuitous (most of the time). The reason why a lot of black rappers don't get respect is because they're redundant and they rap about all the same things their contemporaries do. I don't remember anyone applauding Em re: the Mariah incident, people just love a good celebrity feud.