Comments on: CBS Radio Suspends 2 For Racial Prank

NYC Station's Hosts Called Chinese Restaurant And Made Lewd, Offensive Comments

[trutommo]

"By the way--verbal abuse and teen pregnancy? Kind of apples and oranges, don't you think?"

Sort of like verbal abuse and mass-homicide, eh coach?

[coachcarp1]

trutommo--
Hmmm. Seems to me I read something about a shooting in Virginia not too many days ago...And the report on the shooter was that he had been harrassed pretty badly since junior high. But, according to you, words can't hurt. Yes, it sounded like there were other issues at play for that individual, but harrassment and getting bullied and picked-on were part of his history. But, that's not our problem, right? Yet another individual slips through the cracks of society because words can't hurt.
By the way--verbal abuse and teen pregnancy? Kind of apples and oranges, don't you think?

[acctriangle]

trutommo,

Okay. I am sorry about that. I see your point fully now and I agree. Thanks for giving me the insight into your thought. We can agree.

I think you are right because the news organizations should have their values, mission and vision statement. And if they put programming on that is not consistent, then they look like hypocrites, like NBC News was. I did not like Imus' comments but they obviously did until the advertisers jumped off, but then they wanted to claim it was Imus' views. This was not true, it was the economics.

But again, I agree. And thanks for clarification. You are a good person!

[ecuadoriana]

"it always just begins with words" Posted by toldyouso21

"it's not intended to be funny, it's intended to be mean" Posted by duhrer

Yes, evil is a slippery devil that manifests itself in the sneakiest of ways all across the colour spectrum. It doesn't care who you are only how it can hurt you.

I've been the butt of some bizarre "jokes". I'm a short, blonde, female who looks younger than my age. There was the boss who "joked" that he thought the physical demands of the job would "increase the muscle mass" of my chest; another "joked" that he imagined me sleeping on his office couch "like a little blonde angel baby"; one suggested I wear my hair in "cute little pig tails" so he could tug on them to reprimand me; the co-worker who blocked my office door & insisted he'd give me a massage because I seemed "a little up tight". Once was told I looked like "a wee boy" because I wore pants! Ha ha ha. Not.

These incidences & many others were hurtful, insulting & bordered on dangerous. When confronted these men claimed they were "only joking" & that I was "a big baby who couldn't take a joke".

Most of these incidences happened before s-xu@l harrassment laws. So yeah, it starts out as a "little joke" but quickly turns into a deadly jab- to one's self esteem, reputation or life.

I'm sad to think of the h-ll that women of colour face every day in the work place, the streets or even on a college basketball team!

What happened to respect, or did we never have it?

[trutommo]

acctriangle,

I wouldn't make racist or inappropriate comments at work or even in my private life. It just isn't something that I aspire to. That doesn't mean that I find all racial humor offensive or that I won't laugh at a clever joke or reference. Just because this is something I choose not to do doesn't mean it should be mandated by the radio parent company. Sure, business is business, and if advertisers are jumping ship and the show is losing ratings that's one thing, but executives shouldn't pick and choose what type of joke is offensive, and they DEFINATELY shouldn't listen to any of these moronic special interest groups. The economics of the situation will work itself out through advertising dollars and listener ratings, that I have no problem with. It's this PC-intervening and babying from a station called "FREE" is beyond ironic into the realm of absurd.

I also think that if they are to enforce these rules they should be enforced across the board, the problem is if they do this there will be noone left on the radio. As a result, the rules will be enforced selectively resulting in a limited and possibly tailored number of viewpoints going out over the airwaves. I am simply not in favor of this witch-hunt.

[acctriangle]

VastR-WCon,

If you don't like CBS News because of Katie Couric, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, then it is easy what you should do - get off CBSNews.com. Otherwise, STOP being a hypcocrite and talking.

[acctriangle]

trutommo,

You're a fraud. You know as well as everyone on this blog that you are just as careful about where you say jokes. Yeah, it sounds cool on the radio right? If you would do it on the radio, you should be big and bad enough to say it at your place to employment. Because we know this is what you do. You say ethnic, sexist and racist jokes to everyone around you - including those that you work with...correct?

[trutommo]

By your logic coach, we should first eliminate all VIOLENCE on television. If your kids don't see it they will know violence isn't tolerated in our culture. Given that violent crime is a much bigger threat than hurt feelings, we should be going after 24, law and order, and every other show that depicts violence on television.

Fortunately we managed to eliminate nudity and *** on public television and that cleaned up our teenage pregnancy rates quite nicely didn't it? Mission accomplished!

[vastr-wcon]

CBS execs have appointed the racist, hate-mongers "Hymietown" Jackson and "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton to be in charge of their programming. Since these lying *** were unsuccessful in their efforts to lynch the innocent Duke Lacrosse Team, they have plenty of time for their new job.

These are the same CBS execs that put Couric into a job well beyond her limited talents.

Couric's insensitive, disgraceful hatchet-job on the John Edwards and his wife amply demonstrated that she is incapable of reasoned reporting. She should have been sent back to doing fluff pieces long ago, but the CBS weasels can't seem to the do the right thing under any circumstances.

Hear that sound? - it's Edward R. Murrow turning over in his grave at what has become of the once Tiffany Network's news. Under Couric, it's just another K-Mart bargain basement bin.

I do hope Couric gets some solace from playing with her Mimbo.

[coachcarp1]

We have got to stop teaching children that harrassing and ridiculing people is funny. Aren't there enough instances in our culture where people don't get along with each other? Do we have to hold up peoples' race, gender, disabilities, etc. as differences to be mocked?Ignorant boys like these two "radio hosts" just make it more difficult for my kids to learn to get along with everyone else. And the same goes for all the idiotic television shows that do the same thing. Figure it out, folks--you get what you accept.