VERIZON TO AKON:IT DOES MATTER!!!

By L.T. Dinwiddie
Just weeks after the scandalous Akon tape was released all over the net, including this great entertainment site. It looks like Verizon Wireless has decided to part ways with the African entertainer.

According to the “Fair and Balanced” news outlet, Fox News, this is what they posted on their website:

Verizon has ended its partnership with hip-hop star Akon after he simulated the rape of a 15-year-old girl on stage at a show in Trinidad, FOX News has confirmed.
The girl thought she had won a dance contest, but instead got a simulated rape, which was caught on video.

"This week the partnership ended," Verizon said in a statement sent to FOX News. "We have music services on our cellphone service and we were promoting him as one of the artists. The other part of the sponsorship was the Gwen Stefani tour, of which he was an opening act. We are no longer sponsoring the tour."

First off I don’t like how they called his on stage performance a “simulated rape scene”, but that’s Fox News for you. I have always said from day one that I didn’t hold Akon fully responsible for his part in the sexscapade. However I did catch a sour taste in my mouth after Universal Recods started distributing cease and desist emails to most who were airing the video.

I think that if this incident had happened “Pre-Imus” then it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal. But at this point no one in media is safe. Entertainers are going to have to realize that going forward they’re going to have to keep it clean. Or at least make sure everyone is of legal age for such indecency.