This has to be from the land of Unbelievable. Sheila Johnson and her husband Robert founded BET (Black Entertainment Television). the network’s centerpiece for years was rump shaking, scantily clothed women bopping to the beat. Seductive videos all day long, but now that they have sold the network to Viacom. Sheila Johnson recently said ‘I think we squandered a really important cable network, when it really could have been the voice of Black America.’ What? Now that she has no powere over the network that she founded she now laments that BET is not a voice for the people. I guess this should be expected in the land of Unbelieveable.
Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2012/10/sheila-johnson-bet-co-founder-thinks-network-is-a-squandered-opportunity/#lIl3CkPH3kbtPTJ0.99
“Squandered Opportunity” according to BET co-founder Sheila Johnson
By musesofamom, on October 16, 2012 at 2:38 pm, under Ebony Mom Politics. Tags: African American, African Americans, Barack Obama, BET, black america, black men, Black People, Black women, cbs, CNN, Current Events, MSNBC, nbc, News, politics, race, racism, sheila Johnson, Sheila Johnson squandered opportunity, television, working women. No Comments
Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
