To Fight Domestic Violence, NFL Adds Female Consultants, CBS Subtracts Rihanna Song [View all]

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CNN: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will work with four women "on the development and implementation of the league's policies, resources and outreach on issues of domestic violence and sexual assault," according to a memo Goodell sent to the league's teams...Fourteen players have been arrested for violence against women in the last two years...

• Anna Isaacson...will now be vice president of social responsibility;

• Lisa Friel, former head of the sex crimes prosecution unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office;

• Jane Randel, the co-founder of NO MORE, which aims to "raise the profile of and normalize the conversation about domestic violence and sexual assault";

• Rita Smith, the former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

"Vice president of social responsibility?" Sounds like more token window dressing. Or will they have the power to advocate for the owners paying their fare share of taxes and better salaries for the cheerleaders, too?

Uproxx: ...CBS...(made a) last minute decision...to pull Jay Z’s “Run This Town,” a song...Rihanna (is) featured on, from last week’s “Thursday Night Football” pregame show...(They) felt it wouldn’t be wise to air a song featuring a victim of domestic violence given the current circumstances....

“It’s important to realize we are not overreacting to this story but it is as big a story as has faced the NFL,” (says CBS Sports chairman Sean) McManus...“We thought journalistically and from a tone standpoint, we needed to have the appropriate tone and coverage. A lot of the production elements we wanted in the show are being eliminated because of time or tone.”

...(T)here are times when playing it too cautious can hurt as well...Rihanna...was the victim, not the perpetrator. She could also be characterized as one other thing as a result: a survivor. Maybe the NFL didn’t consider the underlying message they could’ve conveyed with that last thought?

Well, duh -- What more perfect "tone" for them set than to show SUPPORT for a domestic violence survivor? Don't they realize that they victimized her ALL OVER AGAIN???


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