CBS fires imus
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I think CBS was fully within their rights to fire him. It's not outlawed until the FCC comes back and cracks down on saying anything at all that brings out an emotion of any kind in the listener. I fully expect this to happen.
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They haven't outlawed Joe Rogan from comedy yet. That can't be a prerequisite.
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The top story: Don Imus
The secondary story: "..dead American soldiers".
Idiots.
i hear jay leno was using "nappy headed ho's" on his show last night. will he be fired next?
We can only hope for the best.
You are probabaly right.
Like a few people have said I can't fault MSNBC or CBS for firing him. It was a pure business decision. Once all of his sponsors pulled out he was no longer going to generate the revenue necessary to keep him on the air. You also can't blame the sponsors either. It's their dollor and their right to decide where to use that money and whom to attach their corporate identity to.
I've heard people, on here and on the radio, attach Al Sharpton, attack Imus, attack the black community, attack the girls on the Rutgers team, attack women over this for numerous reasons but what about the media. Had last week not been such a slow media week we probabably would never have heard about his comments. The media had nothing else going on so they took it and plastered it all over the headlines. Warrented, what he said was stupid and offensive, butwas it necessary for the man to loose his job, did it warrent all the national attention that it has received. Now because of this we have the FCC getting involved. Now we are going to have the government deciding what is offensive. Now that is truely an offense on us all.
That said, I am a big supporter of free speech. Either your for it or your not.
Noam Chomsky, a radical leftist, but also a jewish person, drew criticism long ago for writing the introduction for a book, written about and by a man who denied the holocaust ever happened, and was antisemitic.
To me, free speech is what seperates us from what we constantly get drummed in our heads. Those evil terrorists, how the hell do they deal with free speech? They probably deal with it in radical ways, but in many ways, most likely similar ways. They fire and kill those who say radical things.
Imus is a jerk and a racist. He is insensitive, but his firing is a loss for democracy and free speech. He should still be on the air.
What I dont get is why Sharpton and Jackson pushed for his ouster. These are men who knew MLK. Do they think MLK would support firing of Imus? Hell no.
This is so stupid. Imus should be condemned, and branded a racist but this is overboard
Racism should be dealt with in a swift and strong manner. It should be condemned and discontinued. Racism shouldnt exist and it should be stamped out.
Yet MSNBC and CBS have no problem being funded by GE, which makes planes and arms that are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have no problem haveing ads on tv and the radio by corporations with unfair labor practices and anti-union stances. They have no problem with refusing to apologize to the public post invasion of Iraq about how they shirked their duty and part of the blame for iraq rests on MSNBC and CBS's lack of reporting and investigation into the claims by Bush about WMD's. They should have done their duty, yet they refused to do it, and 3,000 plus youngsters are dead in part because they didnt do what reporters should do "ask questions" and "investigate". They have no problem with using airtime to talk about inane crap like whose the daddy of Anna Nicoles child, and the Michael Jackson trial and the Kobe trial, and OJ and Britney and Lindsay and Britney. That crap has no usefulness to us. Instead of filling the airtime with information about how the president and the congress lied us into war and how kids are getting killed, they allow airtime to be used by "entertainment reporters" who talk about where britney was last night.
Imus deserves punishment, but he doesnt deserve to be fired. His comments were way off base, and disturbing and show racism still exists in america. But the real people who deserve to have their head on a plate, are those reporters who took an oath to do their duty, and refused to do it, and thus cost us thousands of lives in Iraq.
Thanks for the heads up.
I can't speak about the others but I believe when it's a situation like this the focus is always on the actions of the person, in this case Imus, instead of the root cause.
this whole episode highlights how fucked up our media is in so many ways
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Believe me my friend, I think this entire battle is a waste of time. well for the most part anyway. If all these people would rather focus all this energy in a better way. I mean like health care. but whatever, the countries gone mad! hehehe
If the government had banned Imus I could understand the furor here. But a dumbass got fired for being a dumbass. If he can pull the ratings somewhere, he'll get picked up by someone else.
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Imus was the victim of a slow news week. Had something else, of much more importance happened, we probabaly would have never heard of Imus' comment.