Imus isn’t being censored any more than are the Dixie Chicks. He’s free to say what he wants, and his audience is free to turn the channel. His employers are free to call him on the carpet, or even make a show of firing him, if they fear enough people are turning the station.
Its business.
I don’t listen to Dixie Chick songs when they come on the radio, and the radio station knows it, so they don’t play them. I stopped lisening to Imus years ago after he went off on Christians one day (if you don’t like what I’m saying, he said, turn the station, and I did, permanently).
What he said in this case was over the line, and I’m not surprised there are consequences, not legal ones, but business ones, you can’t stay in business if your listeners don’t listen and your advertisers don’t want to be associated with you. Thats not censorship, though. Its the reason producers have to think twice before using Sean Penn in one of their movies, since there are any number of people who won’t buy the ticket if he’s in it.
That is nothing to do with Fairness Doctrine, though. You are right, though, in observing that getting rid of Limbaugh is priority one for the Dems, from the moment they retake the White House. Had Clinton had a few more months in office before, they would have taken Limbaugh out, and they will stop at nothing until he is gone, should they win big in 2008. You can count on it. That has nothing to do with Imus, though. If Imus were going down over “Fairness”, I’d defend him. He’s going down because he used racial epithets that would get my kids a bar of soap in the mouth if they used them. I have no patience for anyone who talks like that, period. Its not censorship, though, its called turning the station.
You are wrong . Imus was a political hit job. Blacks say 100 times worse about whites on the radio all day long and stupid whites laugh it off. Sharpton is a pupper for Klinton , anyone in NY City knows that . She is promising him a BIG position if he slides the black vote over to her . Imus tore her apart on the radio every day ..Don’t be so naive .
Would satellite subscription radio be subject to any Fairness Doctrine laws?
Quote: “What he said in this case was over the line, and I’m not surprised there are consequences, not legal ones, but business ones, you can’t stay in business if your listeners don’t listen and your advertisers don’t want to be associated with you. Thats not censorship, though. Its the reason producers have to think twice before using Sean Penn in one of their movies, since there are any number of people who won’t buy the ticket if he’s in it.”
That Imus is getting what the market dictates or what he deserves is not the issue anymore. I will go as far to say that Imus ceased being the issue almost from the start. What is the issue is that the Left is using the Imus flap as justification and an opportunity to silence ALL who they disagree with. It is a simple morphing using liberal logic that goes something like this: Imus said something racist, Imus lost his radio show, All conservatives are racist, therefore all conservatives should lose their radio shows.
I watched last week as Olberman, Fraken, MSNBC and CNN tried their best (and continue to try their best) to morph Imus with Rush et. al. Of course, they provide allegedly racist quotes by Rush et. al. as evidence of their racism. Ah, but under scrutiny it becomse evident that most of those quotes have little to do with race and more to do with positions that the left doesn’t like. The left just labels it all as “racism.” To wit, expressing an opinion against rampant illegal immigration is “racist.” Thus, if you are against illegal immigration you are a racist and should be silenced.
Thus, the simple question is this, do you think that Imus’ statements justify the institution of a “fairness” (read Stalinist) doctrine effecting all who dare to speak on the public airwaves?