Will there be any backlash on CBS for firing IMUS?

[volfan2024]

There are some , including Alec Baldwin and few others in Hollywood, as well as some students they spoke with from Rutgers, that felt it was somewhat harsh.I think they did over react myself.

 

[GAVol]

The amazing thing is that from what I have heard, Les Moonves is pretending to take the high road and isn't acknowledging that this was probably more a business decision than anything else. Once the advertisers ran for the hills, Imus became roadkill.

 

[Lexvol]

The amazing thing is that from what I have heard, Les Moonves is pretending to take the high road and isn't acknowledging that this was probably more a business decision than anything else. Once the advertisers ran for the hills, Imus became roadkill.

Along those same lines, CBS had very little choice once a rival media company dropped him.

 

[GAVol]

Along those same lines, CBS had very little choice once a rival media company dropped him.

True . . . CBS had egg on their face once MSNBC fired Imus. It was just a matter of how long they waited.

 

[hohenfelsvol]

The amazing thing is that from what I have heard, Les Moonves is pretending to take the high road and isn't acknowledging that this was probably more a business decision than anything else. Once the advertisers ran for the hills, Imus became roadkill.

Exactly right. Firing was purely financial and nothing do with the morales or social impacts.

 

[WA_Vol]

If every shock jock who said something inappropriate or insulting got fired there would be no morning radio shows in this country.

There seems to be some perspective lost in all of this. You have record labels selling hip-hop music with worse language then Imus has ever used where is the boycott of these record labels?

 

[therealUT]

I heard that CBS was being pressured by the NCAA, and CBS did not want to put their very pricey March Madness on the line.

I cannot blame CBS for this, however, if true, the NCAA should have kept off their backs.

 

[volinbham]

I've listened to a few talk programs here in Bham over the last two days and the tone is definitely one of disbelieve and wondering who's next.

 

[Lexvol]

I've listened to a few talk programs here in Bham over the last two days and the tone is definitely one of disbelieve and wondering who's next.

There is a small degree of irony in the situation. Of the poplular political talk shows out there Imus is certainly closest to the center. He certainly gave the left its fair shake at being heard.

 

[All Vol!]

you know, despite my refusal to defend the comments themselves, I think I'm prepared to express a littly sympathy, if not understanding, for Imus. I think the characterization of good guy did something stupid may even be a little off the mark. What I mean is that such expressions, although indefensible and reprehensible in and of themselves, have become so commonly used in this decadent media culture, many have become desensitized to hearing them and saying them. There are similar commonly used expressions that are extremely crude if taken literally - stuff like, "she's a sexy bitch," for example. I don't use expressions like that myself, but I hear them a lot, and I think they're just products of a society in moral decline, hugely popularized in various media, and have become so common that many use them without thinking and without REALLY meaning them.
This is what I imagine Imus was doing, and I really now don't think he is some racist monster as some have painted him; he is the unfortunate figure who, in a sense, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
One could argue that guys like Imus are just native sons, whose behaviors are alligned with a culture that has been allowed to thrive.

 

[volfan2024]

Last night on ET(watched it for a few minutes) the poll was asked if CBS should have fires IMUS?

90% no
10% yes

 

[CSpindizzy]

Kep in mind that a person on CBS board was the former head of the NAACP. There was pressure even from within to make a move. Not only was money being threatened from advertisers but there was dissention from within.

This is how the Sharpton and Jackson actions work. They are perfect at these operations. They have eyes and ears all over the place and have their own people placed in all of these companies. I'm not one for broad conspiracies but seeing what happened with Coke here in Atlanta not long ago, I know they have reach and power in places many people do not realize.

 

[GAVol]

For whatever Sharpton/Jackson have done to elevate the black community, today they are little more than extortionists.

 

[CSpindizzy]

They are bonafide shakedown artists. I was actually shocked and happy at the same time that Juan Williams took them both behind the woodshed on FNS yesterday.

 

[justingroves]

For whatever Sharpton/Jackson have done to elevate the black community, today they are little more than extortionists.

:yes: So true

 

[volinbham]

They are bonafide shakedown artists. I was actually shocked and happy at the same time that Juan Williams took them both behind the woodshed on FNS yesterday.

I think he's trashed them prior to this. He wrote a book about the Rhymin' Wonder and Wavy Gravy.

 

[CSpindizzy]

I know. I have the book. But the book was low key. This was on TV and quite repetitive and clear. It's easy to slide a low print copy with digs but harder to go on TV and make the punches repeatedly as he did.