[Swprograms] Re: Morning crew suspended on NYC station after race wordTsunami song

["Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The writeup I saw stated that the song was in horribly poor taste.

Also FYI:  my favorite way to cite long URLs is to visit http://tinyurl.com. 
There you can drop in the long URL and have a shorter link created.

The Firefox browser has an add-in utility that allows you to do this in two 
clicks without actually visiting the TinyURL site.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Rubin" <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:42 PM
Subject: [Swprograms] Morning crew suspended on NYC station after race 
wordTsunami song


> 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
>
> (2,914,010 bytes)
>
>
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