Adidas CEO: Kanye West Didn’t Mean His Antisemitic Comments.

[ 21/09/2023 15:15 ] Read on jewishexponent.com

Report Overview: The article contains several manipulations such as sensationalism, misleading headlines, omission of key information, biased language, and unbalanced reporting. These manipulations contribute to a lack of objectivity in the article.

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Adidas CEO (40)

Kanye West (80)

Sides Representation Balance

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Kanye West

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Detected Manipulations & Suggested Changes

Misleading headlines

The headline suggests that the Adidas CEO is defending Kanye West's antisemitic comments, while the article itself indicates that the CEO believes West didn't mean what he said.

Headlines National Andrew Lapin The new CEO of the athletic wear giant Adidas said he doesn’t believe the company’s former collaborator, Kanye West, “meant what he said” when the rapper went on a months-long series of antisemitic tirades that cost him the company’s endorsement last fall.

Change the headline to accurately reflect the CEO's statement.

Omission of key information

The article fails to mention that the Dassler brothers, who founded Adidas, were Nazi Party members.

Also on the podcast, Gulden discussed the Dassler brothers who founded Adidas “during and after the Second World War,” without mentioning that the German brothers were Nazi Party members.

Include the information about the Dassler brothers' affiliation with the Nazi Party for a more complete and objective representation.

Biased language

The article uses biased language when referring to Kanye West's remarks as 'antisemitic [expletive]' without providing the actual statement.

Adidas dropped West, who now goes by Ye, after weeks of public pressure that followed him tweeting he was going “Death Con 3 on Jewish people” and saying on a podcast about the company, “I can literally say antisemitic [expletive] and they cannot drop me.”

Provide the actual statement made by Kanye West instead of using biased language.

Unbalanced reporting

The article presents the Adidas CEO's perspective but does not provide a balanced representation of other perspectives or responses to Kanye West's comments.

In his latest comments, Gulden didn’t mention the reason behind the partnership ending, referring to West’s remarks as “some statements, which wasn’t that good. And that caused [Adidas] to break the contract and withdraw the product.”

Include other perspectives or responses to Kanye West's comments to provide a more balanced representation.

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