Posted on 10/11/2007 5:30:25 AM PDT by yoe
The National Association of Black Journalists urges Citadel Broadcasting chief executive Farid Suleman and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to halt negotiations to return former radio personality Don Imus to the radio and television broadcast airwaves. Recent reports that Imus is in informal talks with Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and is finalizing contractual details with Citadel Broadcasting are unimaginable. Imus was fired last April after the shock jock called members of the Rutgers women's basketball team 'nappy-headed ho's.'
"NABJ remains outraged after the racially inflammatory insults made by Don Imus last spring. He used his free speech to broadcast hate speech. To put him back on the air now makes light of his serious and offensive racial remarks that are still ringing in the ears of people all over this country," said Barbara Ciara, NABJ president.
"It seems inconceivable that less than a year after Imus was dismissed from CBS Radio and MSNBC for his vicious insults upon the Rutger's basketball team, that Citadel Broadcasting and Fox News would consider putting him back on the air," said Ernie Suggs, NABJ's Vice President of Print.
NABJ questions why any responsible broadcast company would give Imus a forum to continue his history of racial insults on his program. Citadel Broadcasting owns 243 radio stations including ABC Radio Networks, and powerhouse radio station WABC in New York.
"It is our hope that Citadel Broadcasting and Fox News will put decency and good broadcast practices ahead of a dysfunctional alliance," Ciara added.
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….really getting tired of these bleating racists..............calling a spade a spade isn’t de rigueur any more just as a terrorist with a hood over his/her face isn’t a terrorist, that form of dress is the uniform of the local home guard………….
but the “reverend” al sharpton can go on his radio show and say the most vile things about Duke Lacrosse players who turn out to be guilty of nothing.
You gotta love a group of “journalists” who identify themselves by their skin color, and who rail against free thought and expression.
Dopes.
If they feel so strongly, they ought to resign from any organization that runs Imus.
I am outraged I have to hear Sharpton, Jackson etc & all that Hip Hop rapper cr@p. Take them off the air too. I am no Imus fan but enough is enough. You don’t want to hear him tune to another station. I find that thug rapper music to be worse then what Imus ever said.
Not an Imus fan, to say the least, but give the guy a freakin break already. He made some stupid, insensitive comment while he was just trying to be comedic, and he’s apologized a bazillion times for it.
They’re the ones that are the BIGOTS & HIPOCRITS.
He apologized.
Get over it.
In the immortal words of Eddie Murphy: “...have a coke and a smile and STFU.”
FNC said they were NOT pursuing him (per MSNBC)
They also said they were looking to give him a black token co-host for “fair and balanced”.
I hope he comes back to: go after Hillary, go after the race baiters, piss off the holier than though race baiters.
(and stick it to that pathetic loser girls basketball team who should have just said “whatever”)
what ever happened to that CNN reporter who made up the viet nam story about agent orange?
The black community (some of them) is still demanding payback for slavery. Some of the others hear them and agree. Some of them would just like to get on with their lives and be successful but they are often held back by the racists and the thugs.
Ahhh! The Black Racism Society spreads its wings!
They are one in the same...............
And listeners can use their freedom of choice to change the station if they want to.
Can a Caucasian, Oriental, Inuit, Indian, etc. join this association?
Or does it discriminate on the basis of skin color?
Banging on pots & looking like idiots. Idiots who never bothered to apologize.
LOL! One of my favorite expressions.
Get the two rogue reverends to STFU and you got a deal.
I thought journalistswere to report the news and not express opinions.
Who cares what they think?
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