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  • CBS apologises for Outkast’s Grammy performance

    CBS apologises for Outkast’s Grammy performance

    MUMBAI: A five minute tape delay during the Grammy Awards couldn’t prevent CBS from landing in hot water yet again after the Janet Jackson Super Bowl episode. The broadcaster apologised to American Indians who took offence over Outkast’s performance at the event on 9 February.

    The group made a grand entrance to the sound of drums and smoke wafting from a tepee-shaped structure. Then dancers appeared and started dancing in skimpy, fringed costumes, braided hair and feathered head dresses. They were accompanied on stage by members of a university marching band.

    A Reuters report indicated that the San Francisco-based Native American Cultural Center (NACC) had posted a notice on its Web site last week calling for a boycott of CBS, OutKast’s label, Arista Records, and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which sponsors the Grammys. This prompted CBS to issue an apology on Friday.

    An AP report added that the NACC filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission saying that the programme was racist in nature. American Indians across the US felt that the performance was disrespectful to their culture and also perpetuated tomahawk-and-teepee stereotypes. In fact the initial chant and drums is said to have given some people the impression that an American Indian group was about to perform. .

  • MTV in a soup over rape allegations on ‘Real World’

    MTV in a soup over rape allegations on ‘Real World’

    MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that MTV could do without. A woman has filed a complaint saying that she was date raped while visiting the set of MTV’s reality show Real World. She had visited the shows San Diego house.
     

    As a result the police searched the place. As per a report in The New York Post the woman said that she was drugged and attacked by an acquaintance of one the residents of the house Randy.

    Her attacker apparently gave her a drink at a nightclub after which she blacked out. The next morning she was found in the guest bedroom in the house withour any clothes indicating that she may have been date raped. The report adds that while the house is full of cameras, the bathroom where the attack supposedly took place is one of two rooms with no cameras or video equipment.

    Meanwhile an AP report has quoted a channel spokeswoman saying that none of the cast or crew members were involved. While no arrests have yet been made the San Dieog police have seized bedding, towels, couch cushions, video tape equipment, taped footage and computer equipment. These will be processed for evidence.

    The show follows the fate of seven strangers who have been chosen to live in a house. The fun comes in finding out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. Real World will also visit Paris.