jojomfd1: What? How is calling one person a nimrod the same thing as disparaging the mental capacity of an entire ethnic group?
If the station doesn't like it, you are out. I don't mean this as an insult, tina, but are you training for your first job, maybe? No workplace that I've ever been in has had absolute freedom of speech. Don't believe me? Get a job somewhere, anywhere, and walk out into the workplace and bellow, "The CEO is an incompetent, snot-gobbling moron!!!" at the top of your lungs. And if you end up working in radio, and -- very likely if you're in the US -- working for a Clear Channel station, I'm quite sure that you'll find yourself working under a generous load of restrictions above and beyond those imposed by the FCC.
that1z: Braindead may be a bit harsh but someone needs to tell Omar that Venezuela is not in the Caribbean; and it is not even an island! I haven't ever been to the Caribbean or discussed this with anyone from the region, but it wouldn't greatly surprise me if residents of some coastal countries like Venezuela considered themselves part of the Caribbean. After all, we don't use the term "Mediterranean" to refer to just Sicily, Sardegna and the Greek Isles. And, just as not all of France (for example) considers itself defined by the Med, I'd expect that the feeling varies among Venezuelans depending on where they're located. But I certainly don't find the idea of referring to Venezuela as "Caribbean" absurd.
These guys are pros and everybody screws up once in a while. Mistakes are getting the stats wrong. Someone spouting racist stuff is not a mistake. If Krueger didn't think like that, he would never have said it. The only "mistake" he made was revealing his true colors.
Tina... The best way to approach anything you're told in broadcasting school is to completely ignore it. Unless, of course, they tell you that the pay is lousy, the hours are brutal, and you better know how the morning show likes their coffee.
I thought this was the place where We can practice free speech? While it was a really dumb comment, I always believed that the press was supposed to be un-biased? If that's not true, then I am very confused .
WTF does that have to do with free speech/ the First Ammendment? Salon's take (good read).
Yes the hours are brutal. Despite what anyone thinks, when you are in a major market and you make any sort of out of line comment like that you are done or you are in the doghouse (unless you are known for that). Oh and no lil bat I have worked since I was 14. I am not clueless as to how the workplace is. But when you are in that environment you get away with a hell of a lot more than when you are broadcasting. Wow you must be assuming things that are completely off about who I am or what i am about, first the mascot fiasco, then track, now this..........................
. Don't assume so much cause they know what they say about those who assume things........................
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and I dont mean that as an insult either.
and I dont mean that as an insult either. Sure you don't, hon, and no insult is taken. But maybe you ought to thicken up your own skin a bit, right, and don't be so quick to assume insult from others. Plenty of people who are in broadcast school have, in fact, never had a job before; it's not an unreasonable question -- and it was a question, not a statement or (as you erroneously state) an assumption.
On Saturday, Alou continued his criticism of Krueger, saying that people from several countries that comprise the Caribbean "were offended by that idiot. This guy offended hundreds of millions of Caribbeans." Kind of a brain dead statement. The population of Cuba is 11,346,670 million. The population of Dominican Republic is 8,950,034. The population of Haiti is 8,121,622. The population of Venezuela is 25,375,281. The population of Columbia is 42,954,279. Hundreds of millions indeed.
