Monday, May 14, 2007

Afer Imus: More jocks bite the dust

"Slimp Flied Lice" got a couple more fired.

I just don't know. If we can't offend people anymore on the radio, then I guess we're gonna have to respect all groups of people equally. Or could we choose to offend all groups equally? It seems that for now at least (see the hip hop crowd) we can offend only groups to which we belong.

Why is this okay? Why can rappers continue to spew what many call hate without being taken to task?

Why?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Imus was fired because advertisers were pulling out. I'm willing to bet the same happened to these other jocks. Broadcast radio is totally driven by advertising.

Rap music is driven by record sales, merchandise, etc. People buy the stuff regardless or because of these lyrics. You can pressure record labels all you want but the bottom line is the bottom line here.

J. Allen said...

Samsin, you are correct. If Broadcast is driven by advertising, Rap is driven by sales, then what is Sharpton driven by?