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Report: Don Imus will return to the airwaves

by David Freedlander [amNewYork (MCT)]

[16.Oct.07] :. NEW YORK—Don Imus, how can we miss you if you won’t go away? Only six months after leaving the airwaves in disgrace, the I-Man finds himself at the center of another media storm, this...

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Imus prepares to sue CBS for $40 million

by David Hinckley and Corky Siemaszko [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[3.May.07] :. NEW YORK - Don Imus is preparing to sue his former employer - and plotting a possible return to radio. The radio jock who was fired by CBS for ripping the Rutgers women’s basketball team as...

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Pimps Up, Hos Down: Hip Hops Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Apr.07] :. Scholar's canny look at hip-hop's denigration of black women.

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Don Imus’ bile places spotlight on state of women’s sports

by Wayne Coffey [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[18.Apr.07] :. NEW YORK—A few days before a broadcasting empire crumbled like a stale saltine, and Essence Carson and her Rutgers teammates started getting as much air time as the evening anchors, Anita...

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Imus flap may fuel hip-hop scrutiny

by Audra D.S. Burch [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Apr.07] :. Sometime between the time Don Imus uttered the now-infamous slur about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team and his firing from the airwaves, America was once again thrust onto the...

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Business - not politics - led to Imus’ demise

by Ron Harris [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[16.Apr.07] :. WASHINGTON - In the end, radio host Don Imus was fired because he didn’t recognize the new, more diverse corporate America. He didn’t think about all of those average women and...

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Hypocrites need to clean up their act

by Lisa Olson [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[13.Apr.07] :. There is no joy in this. The Rutgers women’s basketball team isn’t throwing a parade and most observers on the sidelines hardly feel the need to jump up and cheer. CBS did the right...

No solo act in I-mess: Suits join shock jerk among guilty parties

by Bob Raissman [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[13.Apr.07] :. NEW YORK - Al Sharpton, surrounded by a phalanx of microphones and cameras, stood on 52nd Street, just off Sixth Avenue. It was 6:05 p.m Thursday. The temperature felt more November than April. The...

CBS fires Imus from radio show

by Michael Klein and Michael D. Schaffer [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[13.Apr.07] :. The tidal wave of outrage that had already cost Don Imus his TV show swept him off the airwaves altogether Thursday, eight days after the radio pundit used a racial slur to describe the Rutgers...

Don Imus: The Character of the Content

by David Swerdlick

[13.Apr.07] :. It would be easy to "get over" a disparaging remark about one’s race or gender (or religion or sexual orientation) if one could confidently believe that one's thus ridiculed identity would never be the cause of denied fair treatment, or extended common courtesy, in society at large.

Imus’ radio future in question after MSNBC pulls the plug

by Gail Shister [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Apr.07] :. With advertisers bailing and critics boiling, MSNBC late Wednesday canceled simulcasts of Don Imus’ popular weekday radio show, “Imus in the Morning.” The decision, effective...

It’s a 24/7 shriek show, not a shred of self-editing

by Karen Heller / The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

[12.Apr.07] :. Let us, for a moment, table Don Imus’ contemptible language and address the issue of how he and so many other opinionated gabbers came to flourish in the first place. There is precious little...

MSNBC drops Imus

by Jennifer Mann [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Apr.07] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - MSNBC said Wednesday that it would drop its simulcast of “Imus in the Morning,” as a growing number of advertisers, including Sprint Nextel Corp., pulled ads from the...

Imus steps into ongoing fray about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ hair

by Lolly Bowean [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[11.Apr.07] :. CHICAGO—For African-American women, hair has been the battleground over definitions of beauty. And when it comes to their hair, no word is more incendiary than “nappy.” So when...

Will Imus suspension be enough?

by Gail Shister [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[10.Apr.07] :. Radio “shock jock” Don Imus has been hit with a shock of his own. The popular personality, known as “I-Man,” will be suspended for two weeks, beginning Monday, for his on-air...

CBS, MSNBC suspend Imus for 2 weeks

by Austin Fenner and Corky Siemaszko [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[10.Apr.07] :. NEW YORK - Don Imus tried Monday to put out the firestorm of criticism that’s been raging ever since he insulted the Rutgers women’s basketball team by calling them “nappy-headed...

Black radio fired up over Imus ‘ho’ remark

by David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[9.Apr.07] :. NEW YORK - Black radio Sunday debated the appropriate response to WFAN-AM morning host Don Imus calling the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” last...