Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Larry King Features Chris Brown - Why?

Flipping through cable news channels, I landed on Larry King talking to Chris Brown. It struck me that with the rampant violence against women in every corner of the world, there had to be 100 more important and more compelling stories of survival and heroism, of women who have been subjected to the worst abuse and survived with strength and dignity. Why give Brown’s P.R. team a platform for damage control and image rehabilitation? Why waste air time? Why not give attention to those who deserve it most? Why not raise awareness about the ongoing travesty described by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Gordon Brown...

Topics: cnn, women, rape, gender, sexism, larry-king, sexual-violence, chris-brown, rihanna