Imus show gets canned

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by thecorndogwalker

the FCC is just so insane

Although I don't disagree with you, I fail to see what this has to do with the FCC. What did I miss?

Yes, Sharpton was front and center running his mouth. But when isn't Sharpton big and loud, braying to the heavens about some injustice, perceived or otherwise?

IMHO, this is about money, pure and simple. This incident struck a chord with a lot of people who cared enough to speak out. Companies were told "you continue to advertise with this guy and I'm not so sure I'll continue to buy your products". Sponsors, faced with a loss of revenue, pulled out. CBS, looking a $12M loss square in the eye, can now claim they're firing Imus for all the right reasons. Pfft! Spare me.

Free market advocates, rejoice!

Me? I need a drink. For the first time, I find myself agreeing with Malkin.

Make that a double.

[Stan4dSteph]

Imus is free to say it, and NBC or CBS are free to fire his old wrinkly ass for it.

If he's that great, he'll get hired by somebody else.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And now that Anna Nicole Smith's baby's dad has been determined, I suppose there's a vacuum in trash news that Imus seems to have filled entirely.

Christ, I hate trash culture!

I'm with you here. Why is that news??

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Blisfully ignorant am I.

Bliss is right.

Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

This is a ridiculous abuse of and demonstrates the maliscious nature of our media. Similar to how they bastardized those Duke lacrosse players on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and local news...and now they are proven innocent.

"Dismissed for lack of evidence" is not quite the same as "proven innocent" but I get the point about the media circus and there I agree with you.

Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

IMHO, this is about money, pure and simple. This incident struck a chord with a lot of people who cared enough to speak out. Companies were told "you continue to advertise with this guy and I'm not so sure I'll continue to buy your products". Sponsors, faced with a loss of revenue, pulled out. CBS, looking a $12M loss square in the eye, can now claim they're firing Imus for all the right reasons. Pfft! Spare me.

Free market advocates, rejoice!

Raising my glass! It's not censorship, it's a backlash from people who don't want to hear that level of trash and don't want to support it with their advertising dollars.

While I can see a place for one or two of the guys that can and will say anything, this is getting out of hand. It's just nasty now.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

Raising my glass! It's not censorship, it's a backlash from people who don't want to hear that level of trash and don't want to support it with their advertising dollars.

While I can see a place for one or two of the guys that can and will say anything, this is getting out of hand. It's just nasty now.

Totally. Although I've already stated my piece on the ethically bankrupt tactics of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, I think the end result of Imus getting canned is not in opposition to our (or his) first amendment rights.

Nowhere in the first amendment does it say we are guaranteed a forum to air our thoughts. Imus' forum is only temporarily over until satellite radio contacts him, which you bet your sweet arse they are doing after all this free publicity. Suddenly, Al and Jesse made him relevant again, which only goes to line their own pockets and work against what they supposedly stand for, i.e. making the idiot Imus bigger than he's been in decades.

The CBS execs are being completely disingenuous when they say this had to do with the SPEECH and not with the DOLLARS. If the advertising reaction had been "look, free publicity!" then CBS would never have pulled anything. MORE people watched Rosie after that silly "Ching chong" debacle that she talked about, and you didn't see her even suspended from the show. She apologized, end of story.

So yeah, if the free market dictates what we see, well, I've accepted that as a member of the society we live in. But don't tell me it's not because of the money.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

"Dismissed for lack of evidence" is not quite the same as "proven innocent" but I get the point about the media circus and there I agree with you.

In his press conference announcing the dismissal of the charges the state AG explicity used the word innocent, which is not a word easily used by prosecutors.