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Imus Update
"Roadie" wrote in message ups.com... On Apr 9, 11:42 am, "ve3..." wrote: I watched Imus this morning until 8:00 and he was quite rattled at times. He apologised profusely for his comments about the Rutgers team and indicated that his show would be more politically correct for the "next 4 or 5 years". He had spent much of the weekend consulting with Al Sharpton and the head of the First Baptist Church and they both agreed that he was fundamentally a "good person" who made a "stupid mistake" but they both felt he should resign anyway. His guests were supportive and I think the New York Times article (previous post) got it right. He said he would be on Al Sharpton's radio program and network at 1 pm eastern time today. For those not near a station, Sharpton can be heard at sharptalk.net. Al Sharpton was booked on Tuesday's show. The story is still unfolding but if Imus survives, it will be with a much tamer show. I think another pressure comes from the lawyers. Imus may be afraid of having the pants sued off him. Stay tuned. Yes, I heard bits of that rambling apology on the local news. I think he was taken to the woodshed over the weekend and told to clean it up. The last thing they need is some group threatening a boycott and then an FCC inquiry and a fine. I'm sure the Howard Stern record for fines is big in their minds. This may be what pushes Imus and his characters completely away from FCC regulated radio over to satellite radio. The FCC has never, to the best of my knowlege, fined for anything other than indecency (descriptions that appeal to the prurient interest of sexual or excretory acts) or profanity (the F-word, for example...). It would take defining racist or politically incorrect speech as one of these to make it "finable" and would undoubtably bring First Ammendment issues galore. A boycott and a protest of the owners of the flagship station and its affiliates and their advertisers is the real threat, not the FCC. Stern was not finded for political or racial content... it was for indecency. Satellite is not content regulated, but the possibility of a boycott of a satellite company or of their advertisers or resellers is possible. |
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