Rest In Peace Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul
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The Huge Problem With Fox News’ Apology For Confusing Aretha Franklin And Patti LaBelle
The network used an image of LaBelle during a segment meant to honor Franklin. Their apology makes no sense.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-aretha-franklin_us_5b75ea60e4b05906b411b58e
https://ew.com/news/2018/08/16/fox-...-patti-labelle-photo-aretha-franklin-tribute/
Fox News issued a confusing apology after the network showed an image of Patti LaBelle during a segment meant to honor the life of Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at the age of 76.
The segment featured a composite image that shows Franklin in the foreground and a faded, smaller image of LaBelle in the upper right corner.
“We sincerely apologize to Aretha Franklin’s family and friends,” spokeswoman Jessica Santostefano said in a statement to HuffPost. “Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.”
What makes the apology so perplexing is that the image of LaBelle used in the video for Franklin is one of LaBelle performing by herself.
The image of LaBelle is from the 2014 event “Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House.” While it featured the likes of Franklin along with Melissa Etheridge, Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott, Janelle Monáe, Tessanne Chin and Ariana Grande, at no time did Franklin and LaBelle share the stage.
Fox News spokeswoman Santostefano noted that Franklin’s name is in the description of the image, but it’s pretty clear that the singer herself is not in the photo.
The network used an image of LaBelle during a segment meant to honor Franklin. Their apology makes no sense.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-aretha-franklin_us_5b75ea60e4b05906b411b58e
https://ew.com/news/2018/08/16/fox-...-patti-labelle-photo-aretha-franklin-tribute/
Fox News issued a confusing apology after the network showed an image of Patti LaBelle during a segment meant to honor the life of Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at the age of 76.
The segment featured a composite image that shows Franklin in the foreground and a faded, smaller image of LaBelle in the upper right corner.
“We sincerely apologize to Aretha Franklin’s family and friends,” spokeswoman Jessica Santostefano said in a statement to HuffPost. “Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.”
What makes the apology so perplexing is that the image of LaBelle used in the video for Franklin is one of LaBelle performing by herself.
The image of LaBelle is from the 2014 event “Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House.” While it featured the likes of Franklin along with Melissa Etheridge, Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott, Janelle Monáe, Tessanne Chin and Ariana Grande, at no time did Franklin and LaBelle share the stage.
Fox News spokeswoman Santostefano noted that Franklin’s name is in the description of the image, but it’s pretty clear that the singer herself is not in the photo.
RIP Queen
RIP
It's always heartbreaking and a bit surreal when your idols & icons pass away. R.I.P. Queen.
Wanna share this from Billy Preston:
“She can be hiding out in her house in Detroit for years. She can go decades without taking a plane or flying off to Europe. She can cancel half her gigs and infuriate every producer and promoter in the country. She can sing all kinds of jive-ass songs that are beneath her. She can go into her diva act and turn off the world. But on any given night, when that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she’ll scare the shit out of you. And you’ll know—you’ll swear—that she’s still the best fuckin’ singer this fucked-up country has ever produced.”
“She can be hiding out in her house in Detroit for years. She can go decades without taking a plane or flying off to Europe. She can cancel half her gigs and infuriate every producer and promoter in the country. She can sing all kinds of jive-ass songs that are beneath her. She can go into her diva act and turn off the world. But on any given night, when that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she’ll scare the shit out of you. And you’ll know—you’ll swear—that she’s still the best fuckin’ singer this fucked-up country has ever produced.”
(SOUL) SISTERS ARE DOIN’ IT FOR THEMSELVES: Aretha promising to pay Angela Davis her bond if allowed to, in JET magazine, December 3, 1970.
R.I.P.
She lived a good life in service of the culture and the people.
She lived a good life in service of the culture and the people.
RIP as you join the King. You did your thang Aretha. You earned yo Respek!
RIP to The Queen.
This made me tear up...
Today, we remember Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul" and an honorary degree recipient at our 2014 Commencement ceremony. Her live performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a truly memorable experience.
Harvard University (@Harvard)
Today, we remember Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul" and an honorary degree recipient at our 2014 Commencement ceremony. Her live performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a truly memorable experience.
Harvard University (@Harvard)
by Annie Leibovitz
