How did the company come to produce a record glorifying the murder of police, which is entitled Cop Killer by the rapper Ice-T on the album Boby Count The album is released by Warner Bros. Records, part of the Time Warner media and entertainment conglomerate.
In a Wall Street Journal oped piece laying out the company’s position, Time Warner co CEO Gerald Levin makes two defenses. First, Ice-T’s Cop Killer is misunderstood. "It doesn’t induce or glorify violence... It’s his fictionalized attempt to get inside a character’s head ... Cop Killer is no more a call for gunning down the police than Frankie and Johnny is a summons for jilted lovers to shoot one another.’ Instead of "finding ways to silence the messenger," we should be "heeding the anguished cry contained in his message."
This defense is self-contradictory. Frankie and Johnny does not pretend to have a political "message" that must be &
A. praising acts of violence against police
B. seeking to earn enormous sums of money
C. working under contract with a company
D. exercising revenge against random cops
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