[Swprograms] Morning crew suspended on NYC station after race word Tsunami song

[Joel Rubin <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The crew of the morning show on WQHT (http://www.hot97.com), a hip hop
station owned by the Emmis media conglomerate, have been suspended
indefinitely after an outcry over a parody of "We are the World" which
included a racist word for Chinese.

A Chinese-American NYC councilman from Flushing, Queens, had called
for fines and a sponsor boycott and, indeed, some of the sponsors had
begun to pull their ads off the station.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-ethot0127,0,3165450.story
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/275357p-235692c.html

If you really want to hear it, I found two different links which are
working right now. (There was one on the radio station's web site but,
suprise, suprise, it ain't there any more.)

http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/uploads/USA_For_Indonesia.mp3 (1,275,120
bytes)

and, if you really need this turd at high quality, there's

(combine the lines - I don't think this list allows text attachments
for long URL's)

http://theadviceasshole.net/forum/index.php
?s=08ed9cae39ed7851d8f315a41f694d5c
&act=Attach&type=post&id=238

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