ViacomCBS Fires US TV Host and Actor Nick Cannon, Citing ‘Hateful Speech’ in Podcast
FILE PHOTO: Teenager Selection 2018 – Arrivals – Inglewod, California, U.S.,12/08/2018 – Nick Cannon. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Report Picture
Cannon answered in a while thereafter that he had attempted to touch Shari Redstone, the chair of ViacomCBS, to reconcile and “in reality ask for forgiveness if I stated the rest that pained or harm her or her group.”
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US TV host and actor Nick Cannon has been fired via ViacomCBS for selling what the media corporate stated on Wednesday used to be hateful speech and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on a up to date podcast.
Cannon answered in a while thereafter that he had attempted to touch Shari Redstone, the chair of ViacomCBS, to reconcile and “in reality ask for forgiveness if I stated the rest that pained or harm her or her group.”
His effort used to be met with “Useless Silence,” he stated in a Fb publish. A Viacom spokesman stated: “It’s completely unfaithful that Nick Cannon reached out to the Chair of ViacomCBS.”
At factor used to be a June 30 interview on his “Cannon’s Magnificence” podcast with Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin, who left rap team Public Enemy after telling The Washington Instances in 1989, “The Jews are depraved. And we will turn out this.”
At the podcast, Griffin made the unsubstantiated declare frequently asserted via hate teams that Jews keep watch over the track trade and the media. Cannon answered to Griffin’s feedback, pronouncing: “You are simply pronouncing what you are pronouncing, you are talking details.”
In a observation, Viacom stated its executives spoke with Cannon about his feedback at the podcast, which it stated “promoted hateful speech and unfold anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
“Whilst we strengthen ongoing schooling and discussion within the battle towards bigotry, we’re deeply stricken that Nick has failed to recognize or ask for forgiveness for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we’re terminating our courting with him,” ViacomCBS spokesman Justin Dini stated within the observation.
Cannon, whose courting with ViacomCBS has incorporated website hosting presentations on Nickelodeon and serving as host and government manufacturer of the MTV comedy display “Wild ‘N Out,” disputed the observation, pronouncing he sought on two events a gathering “to reconcile the location.”
“I will have to ask for forgiveness to my Jewish brothers and sisters for placing them in one of these painful place,” Cannon stated on Fb, including he had won an “outpouring of affection and strengthen from the Jewish group.”
He stated he used to be upset “that Viacom does now not perceive or admire the facility of the black group.”
Cannon apologized once more on Wednesday night time, pronouncing he used to be “ashamed of the uninformed and naive position that those phrases got here from.”
Cannon is the host and government manufacturer of “The Masked Singer” on Fox and up to now hosted NBC’s “The united states’s Were given Skill.”
Fox stated it “will transfer ahead with Nick (Cannon)” as he has “sincerely apologized” and brought steps to “make amends.”
“Fox condemns all types of hate directed towards any group and we will be able to battle bigotry of any sort,” it added.
