Articles tagged "talk radio"

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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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XM scolds Opie & Anthony for crude comments

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.May.07] :. Apparently, you can go too far on satellite radio. But whether crude comments about the secretary of state will get two radio hosts fired remains to be seen. In a situation that led to an on-air...

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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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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

 

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...