Black Press Ignored By BET Awards Again-TV

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Black Press Ignored By BET Awards Again - TV

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Black Press Ignored By BET Awards Again!

     As a member of the Black Press I will NOT be supporting the BET Awards 2016 this year. BET has not been Black owed or operated since Viacom bought them out. It is my opinion that BET is nothing but a step child to Viacom. The Black Press in general has not been credentialed to cover the BET Awards in the last three years. The red carpet, back press and photo rooms have been seriously scaled down with major budget cuts and are a complete joke now.

  

Samples of my past BET Awards coverage in my papers are posted throughout this article.

  

Share Newspaper Toronto, On. Canada

   The Black staff that knew and worked with many of us (Black Press) personally for some 13 years have since been let go and replaced with mostly White Viacom and farmed out PR staff that are strictly corporate and aloof. The BET Awards is nothing but a shell of its former self and has been going down steady for the last three years from what I have observed. I sadly watched the original Don Cornelius lead Soul Train Awards gradually go down to nothing where the budget was cut more every year until it was stopped. I see the same thing happening with the BET Awards.

Share Newspaper Toronto, ON. Canada

    Because I have worldwide readership, I have had international artists say to me that the BET Awards have treated a lot of them shabby. Back in the early days when BET was Black owned under Robert Johnson, they had little support from the mainstream press who looked at them as a joke. Throughout those formative years Black press members like myself would be the only ones to show up and report on their lesser press promotion events while the major network entertainment TV shows would be nowhere in sight. Even at present the major TV and radio networks and papers only show for the one or two big events that BET puts on annually. The rest of the year is k-putt as far as their presence and support.

    

Mobile Beacon, Mobile, Alabama

    The Black community should know what is going on with a cable network that masquerading as Black but in actuality is not behind the scenes. I can’t tell people what they should do but I will not watch or run squat on the so-called BET Awards this year or years to follow until it is sabotaged I.e., via more budget cuts etc., until it is gone like the other Black Awards Show before it. I used to have your back BET but since you don't need me anymore, I won't support you. Next time you have a small event and beg the Black press to come out to cover it -- we won't be there!

Frost Illustrated Ft Wayne, Indiana

Florida Star Jacksonville, Florida

Kansas City Globe, Kansas City, Missouri

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NAACP Image Awards - TV

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NAACP Image Awards - TV

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The 47^TH 2016 NAACP Image Awards Sizzles!

The Oscars Diversity Issue Takes Plenty of Hits From Host Anthony Anderson

This year’s NAACP Image Awards® show was an exciting, smash hit as it always is. Of course the festivities began with the red carpet arrivals where the nominees and guests parade in their fashion finest keeping photographers yelling for angels while the crowds of adoring onlookers scream and yell for their favorites getting out of limos. This year’s live pre-show from the red carpet was co-hosted by Tracey Edmonds and Terrence Jenkins who kept their end of the carpet jumping with jokes, fun and celebs

Host Anthony Anderson

    Anthony Anderson, star of the smash hit ABC-TV Sitcom “Black-ish” hosted the televised show from inside of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. This makes his third year in a row as host. He wasted no time lighting into the Oscar® diversity situation. Dressed and posing as Ice Cube in a mock group called “Nominees With Attitudes,” they used NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton,” cut with situation appropriate lyrics to address the "Oscars So White" controversy. Afterwards Anderson went into his monologue which dismantled the lily White Academy Awards®. “Look at all of these beautiful shades of people in the audience,” Anderson observed. “Hollywood needs to know that this is what diversity is supposed to look like.” The crowd ate it up with a roaring applause.

  

 Stacey Dash

  Anderson made a jab at actress and Fox-TV News Host Stacey Dash – who recently called for Black History Month and the NAACP Image Awards to be abolished. He urged Dash to return to the Black side and he would promise to see those "C" movies she makes. 

Will and Jada Smith

  He also acknowledge the Smiths i.e., Will and Jada Smith and laughed saying “They better be here after all this ish they started,” referring to their call for Blacks to boycott the Oscars® when no actors of color were nominated. 




     Anderson noted  “Although we have our own awards show, I just want the other ones to be fair,” he said. “I just hope they don’t go overboard next year and nominate too much black stuff out of guilt.”

This year’s big winners included the Movie “Straight Outta Compton,” TV show “Empire” and actor Michael B. Jordan.

Straight Outta Compton Cast, Director and Producers

 

Taraji P. Henson winner for Empire

 

Michael B. Jordan

NAACP Image Awards 2016 Winners List:

Entertainer of the Year: Michael B. Jordan

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Michael B. Jordan, Creed

Outstanding Motion Picture: Straight Outta Compton

Outstanding Drama Series: Empire

Outstanding Comedy Series: Black-ish

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series: Terrence Howard, Empire

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series: Taraji P. Henson, Empire

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series: Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Sanaa Lathan, The Perfect Guy

President's Award: John Legend

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Mike Epps,Survivor's Remorse

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Marsai Martin, Black-ish

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Joe Morton,Scandal

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Regina King, American Crime

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series: Mara Brack Ali, Jameal Turner, Keli Goff, Being Mary Jane, Sparrow

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Television): Lawrence Hill, Clement Virgo, The Book of Negroes

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film): Ryan Coogler, Aaron Covington, Creed

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series: Don Cheadle, House of Lies, The Urge to Save Humanity is Almost Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: John Ridley, American Crime

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television): Dee Rees,Bessie

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film): Ryan Coogler,Creed

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television or Film): Loretta Devine, Doc McStuffins

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: Anthony Anderson, Black-ish

Outstanding Host in a News, Talk, Reality, or Variety Program (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble: Steve Harvey, Family Feud

Outstanding Talk Series: The Talk

Outstanding Reality Program/Reality Competition Series:Welcome to Sweetie Pie's

Outstanding Variety (Series or Special): Family Feud

Outstanding Children's Program: Doc McStuffins

Outstanding TV-Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special: The Wiz Live!

Outstanding Actor in a TV-Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special: David Alan Grier, The Wiz Live!

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