Radio broadcaster Don Imus has died

NBC News ^ | Dec 27, 2019 | David K. Li

[JLAGRAYFOX]

RIP....Don Imus!!! You changed the morning and evening TV & radio talk shows for the better in so many ways!!!

[twister881]

I always think of Bear Bryant. Dropped dead of a heart attack a month after retiring.

Not many years ago, a 100 y/o man who worked for the LA transit department performing/supervising the cleaning of city buses retired. In his many decades with the department, he had taken only 1/2 day off...to attend his wife's funeral. He died within a month of retirement.

Two of my (male) neighbors who lived adjacent to my house died not long after retirement, one within a year. Neither would be considered elderly by today's standards, 60ish.

Something psychological & physiological way too often occurs when men lose what they consider their life's primary purpose. Scares the hell out of me.

[Wuli]

Yes I think he was

[larryjohnson]

Watched for all the years I was in Maine. Just searched and saved Emmylou Harris on Imus. 911 broadcast from his NYC apartment. Imus Ranch one of my best charities

[C19fan]

During the mid-80s, WNBC 660 AM had Imus in the morning window and Howard Stern in the afternoon window.

[Alberta's Child]

One thing that I found remarkable about Imus was his willingness to be totally frank about himself on the air. He always openly acknowledged his life as a recovering alcoholic. Interestingly, he also insisted that he was never a drug addict. He used cocaine heavily because he enjoyed its effect on him, but said he was never addicted to it and had no trouble giving it up “cold turkey.”

What an interesting character.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grey_whiskers.

[Paal Gulli]

Journalism 101: You NEVER use a passive verb ANYWHERE in a news story, EVER, least of all in a headline.

Passive verbs avoid attribution and attribution goes to the “who” in “the 5 Ws” of news reporting.

[wardaddy]

My wife told me she’d read in 1968 or so he did a black panther look a like contest on his first or second radio show

Man that was early early for that sort of thing

Newton or a Cleaver

That set the tone

I was not a fan but my wife was....no question imus made the genre not the other way around

He was a wisecracking rich kid born on third base who could afford risks which he took with abandon

He could be very funny

But mean too

Anyhow it’s done now

[wardaddy]

Lesbian dating game era

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I heard about this on radio while driving a road-trip yesterday. Whatever station it was, they played a hilarious exchange between Imus and one of his co-workers on-air. They were arguing about something and Imus says, “You want me to go to my safe and get my gun?” The other guy answers, “Only if you put it to your temple...”

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No kidding, he wasn’t out acting like Opie & Anthony. He was labeled a “shock-jock” by people who thought that everybody on-air should have a delivery like Stoned Phillips. My mother-in-law quit listening to him when he said something “racist” about women on Indian reservations but has no comment when asked why DemonRat politicians are never in trouble for saying that their minority constituents are too stupid to be expected to obtain and carry proper ID.