CBS has fired Don Imus

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NEW YORK - CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, less than 24 hours after MSNBC pulled the plug on his talk show’s television simulcast amid the uproar over his racial slur.

Several major advertisers dropped the show, and pressure from politicians and the public has mounted since the radio host referred to the Rutgers basketball players as “nappy-headed hos” shortly after they lost the NCAA women’s national championship game.

MSNBC dropped its simulcast of the “Imus in the Morning” radio program and aired news instead on Thursday, though Imus still broadcast the show from an MSNBC studio.

CBS Corp., which owns both the radio station WFAN-AM that is the host’s broadcast home, and the syndicator Westwood One, announced earlier this week that it had suspended Imus for two weeks without pay beginning April 16.

[MedicCook]

I don't think this is a surprise to anyone with the way things have been progressign the last 24 hours.

[trojanmiro]

i saw sharpton on channell 13 this morning. the woman was bitter towards him. not quite as bad as oj, but the debate its sparking is similar.