Imus Is Bigger Than Ever!

When we came out in protest against Don Imus for
his sarcastic remarks about the Rutgers Women's
basketball team we really thought that we were
doing something good for our people. Well it looks
as if this whole Imus issue has backfired on us and
all we really did was give the man a paid vacation
and made him more in demand. After reading the
article below what should we do the next time an
issue like this arises?



NEW YORK -- U.S. broadcaster CBS has settled its termination dispute with fired radio shock jock Don Imus, the company said today, a possible step toward Imus going to work for a rival broadcaster.Imus was fired in April after referring to a mostly black university women's basketball team with a racial slur, generating a storm of controversy that led CBS Radio to cancel his popular "Imus in the Morning" show.

The Imus show was produced and broadcast by CBS-owned WFAN radio station in New York and syndicated on some 60 other stations across the United States. The show was also simulcast on cable television's MSNBC.CBS and MSNBC first decided to suspend Imus' show for two weeks after he said the Rutgers University women's basketball team looked like "nappy-headed hos."

"Nappy" is an antiquated term referring to coarse, curly hair, and "ho" is slang for whore.As calls to fire Imus grew, notably from New York civil rights leader Al Sharpton, MSNBC canceled the Imus show and CBS did so the next day."Don Imus and CBS Radio have mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other regarding the Imus radio program on CBS. The terms of the settlement are confidential and will not be disclosed," CBS said in a statement.

WFAN announced today that former NFL quarterback and CBS sports broadcaster Boomer Esiason, and Craig Carton, an afternoon FM talk radio host, would host a show that takes over Imus's former weekday morning time slot from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.Imus had threatened to sue CBS for breach of contract and hired famed lawyer Martin Garbus, who once represented politically incorrect comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1960s.





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