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Article: Don Imus Is Fired by CBS Radio; Racial Slur Doomed Shock Jock's Broadcast
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- The Washington Post
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- April 13, 2007
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Bowing to a national outcry and internal protest, CBS Radio said
yesterday it would end Don Imus's morning program "immediately,"
possibly bringing the sometimes inflammatory broadcaster's four-
decade career to a swift and ignominious end.
CBS followed NBC, which Wednesday canceled the MSNBC simulcast of
Imus's radio show. Imus touched off a conflagration last week when
he made racist and sexist comments.
Imus -- as well as CBS and NBC -- struggled for the past
eight days to craft an effective response to widespread criticism
after he called the Rutgers University women's basketball team
"nappy-headed hos." But neither repeated apologies nor a two-week
suspension imposed this week by ...