Comments on: More Fallout http://multi-medium.net/2007/04/11/more-fallout I'm full of tinier media! Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:19:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Eli http://multi-medium.net/2007/04/11/more-fallout/comment-page-1#comment-16097 Eli Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:17:55 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/04/11/fallout-2/#comment-16097 Well, I guess if you don't care about racism, or about beginning to clean up the sewer of hate radio. Until we establish a precedent that media personalities do *not* have total impunity to say whatever they want without consequences, they will just keep getting worse. Getting rid of Imus wouldn't make much of a dent in and of itself, but it would normalize the concept that certain things are intolerably vile, and that no-one is immune from repercussions for hate speech. This is *not* a blonde white girl story (obviously) about nothing - this is about our corrupt corporate media, and its ongoing tolerance for hate merchants far viler than Imus. Well, I guess if you don’t care about racism, or about beginning to clean up the sewer of hate radio. Until we establish a precedent that media personalities do *not* have total impunity to say whatever they want without consequences, they will just keep getting worse.

Getting rid of Imus wouldn’t make much of a dent in and of itself, but it would normalize the concept that certain things are intolerably vile, and that no-one is immune from repercussions for hate speech.

This is *not* a blonde white girl story (obviously) about nothing – this is about our corrupt corporate media, and its ongoing tolerance for hate merchants far viler than Imus.

]]> By: PoliticalCritic http://multi-medium.net/2007/04/11/more-fallout/comment-page-1#comment-16096 PoliticalCritic Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:19:59 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/04/11/fallout-2/#comment-16096 This story needs to go away. There are more important things to talk about than Don Imus. This story needs to go away. There are more important things to talk about than Don Imus.

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