ICON NEWS: Lew Marklin Calls Out Music Industry to Clean Up Their Act For Kids

Sept. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- Hollywood CA - Lew Marklin, a.k.a. Lewis Marklin Mash, host of Icon News announced his involvement with Conscious Music Entertainment (C.M.E.), with a loud resounding message to the music industry to start being accountable to the music content that we are giving to our children.  Mash, who had a music background, as a rap artist and performer, before his new career in television, has been very vocal about this opinion that he shares with some of entertainments biggest names, on radio shows around the country and in London, this summer.  Marklin states "I just feel sick about some of the music that we are giving to our kids right now.  At the micro level, we are responsible for our own children and households, at the community level, we are responsible for each other and eachers own, and at the national and international macro level, we are one big village raising up generations of tomorrow and it's just shameful that we allow artists who I will not name, teach kids much worse than just curse words, but how to use hardcore drugs that destroy their developing minds, treat women poorly, cheat their way through life, disrespect for law and order and the list goes on.  As a kid, I got in  a lot of trouble, but as I grew up, I came to find out, the hard way, that life does not get any easier and at a certain point society begins to treat you pretty badly if you don't get your stuff together.  It is our responsibility to teach these kids those realities and to uphold the same standards that we expect them to live by.  You find these lessons in the Bible, Aesop's Fables, Chinese Proverbs, in every spiritual writing and even every Disney movie you watch.  I think it's safe to say that you don't need to be Aristotle to understand this concept. There's a real problem and we need to do something."  Marklin sits on the board of Conscious Music Entertainment.
        Conscious Music Entertainment, a company founded by Nashville Songwriter, Milliea McKinney, and partnered by Pat Melfi, the former VP to MCA Records, and Partner to Ken Kragen, the creator of 'We Are The World', Hands Across America', and 'Live Aid'.and supported by Board members Audra Nay and TV Producer Lewis Marklin Mash of ICON News which will air this fall.
         Pat Melfi, and Ken Kragen, are at it again working to bring education to our youth with music and art with EOTO, {Each One Teach One} and MuzArt Foundation. McKinney,
Nay,  Melfi,and Mash work to bring education and awareness for the need to positive lyric content to our youth and our society cautioning artist to be aware of their listening audiences and the age group.
          Marklin finishes that "The entertainment industry has always had a unique power to influence masses, with the burden of contradicting the rock star carefree party lifestyle and money making.  These are times when we see, who steps to the plate and puts off the party, passes on a few bucks and says, we got a problem, let's come up with a solution, we're all in this together and it's our responsibility to take care of these kids and give them the same fighting chance that we had.  I look forward to seeing a great turn out, because this is a great town, and I cannot even tell you how wonderful so many of my colleagues in Hollywood are.  It nearly brings me to tears sometimes when I see the heart's of so many of today's stars out here.  It's great and it just doesn't get talked about enough. We're about to move and shake and make some amazing life changing stuff happen, just watch!"

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