I believe that What About Our Daughters? had a follow-up post: http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-about-our-daughters-wins-battle.html.

Think web junk 20 peppered with 'on the street' reports from people asking questions like "how high do you think the percentage of Black men not working is?" or "What does the NAACP stand for?" Pretty weak.

I would not say there has been silence. I will not speak for everyone who wrote on the issue, but I was one of the first to be addressing it.

I also made my reply, with a description of the program, that night. It can be found here http://www.blackentertainmentblog.com/2007/07/i-was-wrong-about-we-got-to-do-better.html

While the program was not what I had been expecting, thankfully, it was not the "booty-shakin, baby mama drama, pimped out high schoolers" event we were led to expect prior to it's opening. I feel that many things were changed prior to the show being aired. It doesn't take several weeks to superimose a new title logo on a half-hour program. Critics (professional), journalists, and staff within BET were not denied viewing of the program because it was that great.

BET has used the media let-down to it's advantage. Viacom is standing tall because the mainstream news has not reported much about the show, implying that there was nothing wrong with the program ever. I disagree. As I mentioned in my post to Ms. Visctoria Tang,

>a href="http://www.blackentertainmentblog.com/2007/07/comment-on-article-by-victoria-tang-at_26.html">"I submit to Ms. Tang that if a program was announced to appear on say ABC Disney that was titled ‘Hitler Rules’ it would catch attention. IF ABC had on it’s website a desrition of the program that stated it would feature KKK rallies, neo-nazi marches, church burnings and equated this to a plane crash you can’t stop watching. Lastly if the logo of the company was an image of a burning cross inscribed in a no symbol. It is well within the First Amendment to state these things. And without context I would imagine many would be outraged."

The show was not perfect, but it was not horrendous. The protest was justified not because of what the public was shown, but because of what I believe was changed. I still have no great love of the program, or the site it is based on but I do not deny the right to present such a program. I'm just happy that it does have some content that can be seen as positive.

I do not see compliance. I have not seen a change in those that wrote about the program. Each blogger that spoke on this, believes in improviong the culture and community for African Americans in their own way. That has not changed, but the attention the major media is willing to put forward has. I would leave you, and your readers, with this question - Why is it that it took roughly 2 weeks for the major media to pay attention to a protest that was on-going, and why have they abandonded this issue whose roots run deeper than this one program so quickly?

Thanks Michael, you go some really good analysis here... and you got that right, the mainstream media sure cushioned this show's fall!