My tacit method of avoiding most “major label” produced media is why I didn’t watch the Grammys last night. If I had watched, I would’ve found out sooner rather than this morning that convicted felon Chris Brown performed onstage, three years to the day from when he was arrested, and later pled guilty to, the felony assault of then girlfriend Robyn Rihanna Fenty. (Rihanna performed too, so we had both the victim and the assailant at the same show. Hmm…but let’s not get into that right now). The new and varying ways stewards of mass media will bend ethics for financial power never ceases to amaze me. And it’s as simple as that. There’s no room here to claim that he’s been rehabilitated or learned from the errors of his ways, especially when just last year he vandalized the set of Good Morning America after being asked about his assault charges. Brown got a standing ovation after his first performance, and referred to himself as a “role model” on Twitter before deleting it. Really?
Sasha Pasulka of Hello Giggles sarcastically remarked: “It was nice of the Grammys to let him off a couple years early for high record sales good behavior.” Also disappointing was Grammy Executive Producer Ken Ehrlich’s response, where he claimed that he and Grammy Awards were victimized by Brown.
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