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November 21, 2008
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Random thoughts from Dave Haber inspired by today's news and whatever
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Imus terminated, along with your Freedom of Speech
[Posted by Dave Haber on Friday, 04/13/07 5:10 pm] [Related Posts] [Digg This]The original "shock jock" Don Imus was fired late last night from WFAN and CBS Radio, following his ouster just the day before from his simulcast on MSNBC Cable TV.
I used to listen to Don Imus when I was in college in New York in the late seventies. I lost track of him after that for many years, except temporarily a few years ago when his show was carried for a while on a station in Los Angles. Living in L.A., his MSNBC simulcast was on while I was asleep.
My fandom of Imus notwithstanding, I think it is outrageous that he has been fired.
I think he was fired for the wrong reasons. If it weren't for the vocal community leaders, he'd still be on the air. He apologized to the members of the Rutgers basketball team, if any of them had said they thought he should be fired, the action would have been understandable. But, they did not. If advertisers had been hearing from the public that they would no longer buy the products of someone who sponsored Imus, the action would have been understandable. But they did not.
I am a firm believer in the free market system, if people stopped listening/watching Imus because of this incident, then I agree, take him off the air. But nobody gave him that chance, did they?
Are we, as a nation, no longer allowed to kid people about things? Are we no longer allowed to make any jokes which denegrate someone, whatsoever? Has anyone ever heard of the First Amendment? I have a right to speak like a jerk. You have the right to point out that I'm speaking like a jerk, of course. But you don't have the right to prevent me from speaking like a jerk. And that's the road we're headed down today with the firing of Imus.
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