Tsunami Song Offends Any Standards of Decency - Sign the Petition

[mikelewis]

HOT 97 BOOTS TSUNAMI-SONG PAIR, VOWS $1M IN AID
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/39286.htm
February 2, 2005 -- Hot 97 radio fired two staffers and pledged $1 million for tsunami relief yesterday, hoping to quell the firestorm over a song that mocked victims of the catastrophe and used an ethnic slur to describe them.
"The actions of the morning show crew were socially and morally indefensible and the entire Emmis family is ashamed by this," said Rick Cummings, president of Emmis Communications, which owns the station, WQHT/97.1 FM.

Cummings said "Miss Jones in the Morning" producer Rick Delgado and on-air sidekick Todd Lynn were axed to send a message that "this type of insensitivity is utterly unacceptable."

Emmis blamed Delgado for "writing, producing and airing" the "We Are the World" parody and Lynn for "offensive, racially insensitive comments."

Cummings said Miss (Tarsha) Jones, along with sidekicks DJ Envy and Tasha Hightower, will be back on the air a week from today, but must donate two weeks' salary to Give2Asia tsunami relief.

That's also where Emmis will send its $1 million "lump-sum" donation.

"This response, as with all their previous responses, is inadequate," said Queens Councilman John Liu, the most vocal critic of Hot 97's parody.



"I have made it very clear to Emmis that they need to give up a week's worth of advertising revenues to the relief efforts and, by my calculation, that's not $1 million.

"Give me a freakin' break — it's $10 million," Liu said.

Delgado and Lynn couldn't be reached for comment.

Here's a link to the Song - It is very offensive - Sign the petition of protest!
http://www.asianmediawatch.net/missjones/