Sentence examples for was rapped for from inspiring English sources
In September 2013, Comedy Central was rapped for running alcohol ads in almost 80 episodes of Friends when a significant proportion of the audience was under 18.
In July 2013, Channel 4 was rapped for running alcohol ads during shows likely to appeal to children, including hit US comedy import The Big Bang Theory.
Radio's golden girl - whose show was rapped for a smutty live interview with Ali G earlier this year - saw her audience slump as the station overall lost 1 million listeners compared with the same three month period last year.
And she has had the odd bit of bad press in her time: Jamie Oliver called her a "stupid cow" after she interviewed him, and in 2007 her programme was rapped for letting convicted paedophile Jonathan King protest his innocence on air (although Derbyshire repeatedly challenged him).
In 1980 even Ronald Reagan discovered the limits of free speech and the suffocating power of the burgeoning PC culture when he was rapped for telling a joke that had Poles and Italians in the punchline, eliciting this response from the chairman of New York County: "Gov.
Another payday lender has been rapped for misleading advertising today.
What this eager, accomplished show can be rapped for, though, is that it manages to get nearly everything right, except the most crucial bit: its substance.
The trigger for the September spike may have been this story on Tesco being rapped for implying the horsemeat scandal affected the whole food industry.
Shows including Family Guy, Glee and Two and a Half Men are rapped for making light of (for example) child molestation, sexual harassment, sex trafficking, prostitution and pornography – according to the organisation's recent research.
On Karmin's major-label debut EP, "Hello" (Epic), though, she's rapping for herself.
He was discovered by another canine hip-hop artist, Snoop Dogg, who he calls his uncle, when he was only 13 – then just Lil' Bow Wow – and had been rapping for some years before that.
