Rihanna isn’t happy with CBS. The network cut an opening segment featuring Rihanna singing “Run This Town” that was scheduled to run during Thursday night football last week after news of the Ray Rice controversy broke.
CBS came back sniffing around Rihanna once the dust had settled and the artist had some choice words for the major network via .
CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, Fuck you! Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this.
— Rihanna (@rihanna)
Then she followed with “The audacity…”
Rihanna implies that she doesn’t want to see the intro to run this week.
“The change to the introduction was part of a number of changes made to Thursday’s broadcast to make room to discuss the Rice situation,” a spokesman for the NFL Network
They didn’t feel the tone of the intro matched the tone of the coverage to the Rice controversy.
On Tuesday after Rihanna sent the tweet, CBS said it was permanently editing the song out of its Thursday NFL telecasts,
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Julio Enriquez is a Denver writer and photographer, editor of the blog and a regular contributor to Reverb
