Why You Shouldn't Give A Turd About the "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" Documentary

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Its executive producer Curtis "Fifty Cent" Jackson isn't in it.

Fifty claims that his contributions to the documentary were financial (via Netflix) rather than creative, and that it was he who hired its filmmaker Alexandria Stapleton (and who has been escorting her to interviews and barely letting her get a word in edgewise). But it is no secret that Fifty and Diddy have been involved in a decades-long and frequently adversarial relationship, and that Fifty himself has been accused of sexual violence -- neither of which should have been overlooked by either Netflix or Stapleton, because it taints the entire project with a conflict of interest powered by a personal vendetta.

Was Stapleton less than diligent with her research, or was she simply issued a volume of videos to stitch together? Was it she who made the decision to leave Fifty out of the documentary, or did she receive instructions from him and/or Netflix to do so? Was leaving him out of the documentary a condition of Fifty's hiring her?



And most important, do Diddy's victims end up with the attention and sympathy they deserve? Not if Fifty gets to enjoy the decline and fall of Diddy's financial, cultural and moral empires from a revenge-upholstered front row seat, then pull away from the wreckage (including a now compromised Ms. Stapleton) with his pockets fattened (at Diddy's "expense") and his hip-hop "street credibility" upgraded!


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1. I watched the first one

(from cnn I think) that was all I needed to know