So has anyone heard of this NY radio station that played a parody song to the tune of We Are The World (I think) that was about the Tsunami Disaster? Apparantly they're still getting shit, have fired a bunch of people and suspended more and are still getting shit.
Thoughts on that?
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I heard caller on that station the next day (I'm in NYC area) and about 75% of them were pissed. Some even went to far as to send in an angry RAP song!!!(cue Saved by the Bell "ooooooooooohh" audience sound).
Pretty fucked up if you've heard it. I think if it were humorous in any way, it may have been funny, but it didn't rhyme, it was just a fucking inappropriate thing in the end.
I have an mp3 of part of the song, and a bunch of fighting on the air between the host and one of the women on the show Miss Info is her moniker. She is Asian I guess and didn't agree with the parody and said so and got ripped a new one. I can attach it if anyone is interested
Hey Miss Info!
Did you hear the one about the Volkswagen dealer during the Hollocaust?
Quit cockblockin' homie.
I was hittin on Miss Info!
oh.
I thought fer sure one of you fukkers would have registered a Miss Info troll by now.
I'm not going to do it, I need to leave here in 15 minutes.
In an effort to make this a real discussion I have to ask:
1. Should they have been fired for this parody?
2. Where's the line between tasteless and acceptable?
I thought our constitution had a first ammendment. My bad!
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VitaminE Wrote:I thought our constitution had a first ammendment. My bad!
Constitution - yes. Company Policy - No.
Jimmy - The old Hardcore Standard. :clap:
Having said what I said, I need to add this. Controversy gets a reaction. A reaction means ratings. That's the reason this station had people on there in the morning that were likely to do things like this.
So. Is the Company being hippocritical? Should they take a stand? Say we're sorry it offended people, and stick to their guns? Or are they right in cowtowing to the corporate sponsors and media watchdogs?
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VitaminE Wrote:I thought our constitution had a first ammendment. My bad!
we do have one
also a first amendment
love the new av, E
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leucetios Wrote:Having said what I said, I need to add this. Controversy gets a reaction. A reaction means ratings. That's the reason this station had people on there in the morning that were likely to do things like this.
So. Is the Company being hippocritical? Should they take a stand? Say we're sorry it offended people, and stick to their guns? Or are they right in cowtowing to the corporate sponsors and media watchdogs?
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narg:
I realise that I have a past to break with--an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to genuine practice, right effort. Need to push on the great doubt. Need for the spirit. Hang on to the clear light.
Thomas Merton
I think yer right on the money (pun intended) with both points. Most fines on the books are written to punish individuals. Typicall $5000 or less, companies laugh at these fines. They usually get 100 times the publicity per dollar resulting the fine that they would have recieved for paid advertising. When Burtuzzi, pulled that shit last year and the sponsors threatened to take their corporate backing away from the NHL and especially the Vancuver(sp) franchise. The punishment was appropriate. When Dorko-the-Love-Sponge pulled his stunt down in Tampa - They yanked his show due in part by the number of sponsors who were going to or did walk away.
Wealth has replaced the legal system! (Sup O.J) Sponsorship in the new leadership in this great country of ours.
