Lost amid all the talk of the Iranian president and the war in Iraq this week is a Congressional hearing today entitled “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images,” where the following music industry executives were scheduled to appear and be asked to take a public position on the misogyny and other offensive material in their products:

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman; Edgar Bronfman Jr. chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group; Doug Morris, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group; Alfred Liggins, president and CEO of Radio One; and Strauss Zelnick, a partner in ZelnickMedia and chairman of Take-Two Interactive.

Master P was also scheduled to appear, reported Media Week.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.