It shouldn’t be so hard to apologize to Janet Jackson
CBS knows what it’s former CEO and chairman did. Say sorry and move on.
All CBS had to do was say two words to Janet Jackson: we’re sorry.
They stubbornly evaded atonement, which is why at last week’s Grammys, Dr. Dre was given an award originally intended for her.
According to TMZ, the Grammys intended to honor Janet Jackson with a Global Impact Award only “there was a snag.”
That snag was that the Recording Academy wanted Janet to attend a pre-Grammy event with the Black Music Collective held days before the show — only her schedule wouldn’t allow it. The talks between her camp and theirs then pivoted to Janet receiving the award at the actual Grammys. Unfortunately, that presented another problem centered on CBS, the network airing the show, which has never dealt with its history with Janet following the 2004 SuperBowl.
Although many had their suspicions at the time it was happening, it was not formally revealed until 2018 that then CBS CEO and chairman Les Moonves purposely sought to sabotage Janet’s career.
Reporting for The Huffington Post, Yashar Ali revealed that Moonves developed a “a years-long fixation” following “the so-called ‘wardrobe malfunction’ of 2004, when her breast was exposed for nine-sixteenths of a…
