What? No Akon?

Michelle Malkin posted at 1:50 PM ET yesterday that Verizon Wireless dropped a partnership with particularly vulgar rapper Akon.

Thank you, readers. Thank you, Laura Ingraham listeners. Thank you, Verizon Wireless

While sensitive to censorship issues, given that music and cell phones are marketed to young children and with the kind of filth being perpetuated, particularly by the music industry today, I supported the effort and thought it was a big deal when it showed results so quickly. I was also outraged at the way UMG censored Malkin's criticism that started the effort.

Was it a big deal? Did society start to turn a corner by acknowledging some of said filth and find a way to start doing something about it?

Not according to the mainstream media. There are more Akon PR stories out and about than there are mainstream news stories of the Verizon announcement. Most of any reporting comes from blogs and alternative media. Google News Akon As of now, 12 hits, none of which are from major outlets.

Thanks mainstream media - way to maybe help rid us of some of this vulgarity and misogyny by simply doing your job, reporting the news. Sorry it wasn't some mostly washed up old white shock jock who was fired - that announcement was carried around the country within hours. I assume you do realize Akon is a much larger media figure today than was Don Imus.

Lame, MSM ... very lame. It was news whether you liked it, or not.

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Oh. Nobody wrote about it because it was a nothin', potemkin campaign that didn't mean shit in the long and short runs. Kinda like Jamil Hussein. Remember?

Back to sleep now, along with wingnut dreams of turning their colossal fuck ups around with meaningless "gotcha" plays.

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