Just heard on WFAN radio in New York that CBS Radio has immediately dismissed Don Imus. Mike and the Mad Dog, afternoon sports talk hosts are expressing their outrage right now. The pressure worked and Imus will no longer earn $10 million/year to broadcast his hate filled content.
This was about more than one comment. Imus and his sidekicks, along with the media outlets that broadcast his show, have made alot of money off of their racist, sexist and homophobic content. On Daily Kos and elsewhere on the blogosphere, we've gone after hate radio station KSFO in San Francisco as well as Ann Coulter when she made that horrible comment about John Edwards. Alot of folks want to go after Glen Beck and others for their hateful speech. I say let's go.
Here's a link from an online article with a statement from Sumner redstone earlier today.
April 11, 2007 - Media mogul Sumner Redstone says he's looking to his chief lieutenant, CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves, to "do the right thing" when it comes to deciding whether to fire Don Imus, the CBS Radio star shock jock now being whipsawed in a storm of racial controversy.
MSNBC now has a banner at the top of it's homepage.
CNN has a video link up now on it's homepage.
Another CNN link
"From the outset, I believe all of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air about the young women who represented Rutgers University in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship with such class, energy and talent," said CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves, in announcing the decision.
As ortcutt mentions in the comments below, kudos to
Media Matters for America for really doing alot of legwork and providing many examples of hateful speech broadcast on the Imus program.