[jackbill]

They have indentured slaves there at MSNBC? She could have said I will not work with IMUS and pulled out tapes where he has denegrated others for fun as reason why. She chose TV face time despite IMUS's known reputation.

Before Contessa Brewer was on with Imus, another MSNBC babe - Amy Robach (sp?) was on his program. I wondered why she put herself through his crap. She didn't last long and I suspect that she asked to be removed. I also suspect that Contessa was in some part referring to her when she made her "beautiful woman" comment.

Any woman who stays on the program with Imus has absolutely no self respect. None.

[elcid1970]

There was one exception. Two years ago a young Italian from the Bronx named Christy Musamecci came on his show. Imus cruelly ridiculed another young woman, and Christy leaped to her defense, calling him out in no uncertain terms, in the fiercest language. Imus shrank into his chair and begged for mercy. Not only was Christy Musamecci not fired, she stayed on for another year and a half, and left on her own terms, to take a higher paying job at MSNBC. Thus was the bully confronted, by a girl.

[Alberta's Child]

There's more to this story than what's being told in these articles. This is all part of an ongoing dispute between the Imus radio folks and MSMBC over the simulcasting of his radio show on MSNBC. There have been a number of incidents over the last few months that hinted at this, and now it looks like it has just blown up in public, that's all.

Imus may be a crank, but I think he's got every right to be p!ssed off at his management when they insist on adding these people to his radio show just because of some deal they've cut with a television affiliate.

Beyond all that, there is always an underlying tension between people in radio and in television -- mainly because the people in radio tend to be far more talented than their counterparts in television.