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Originally Posted by 1slOwCD8
Emmis Suspends Hot 97 Morning Show Over Tsunami Joke
January 26, 2005
Emmis-owned WQHT (Hot 97)/New York has indefinitely suspended the entire staff of the Miss Jones in the Morning show over a spoof song written about the Asian tsunami disaster. The morning show repeatedly ran the segment last week, which was a parody of the song "We Are The World." The song used racial slurs about Asians and made jokes about child slavery and people's mothers being killed.
"What happened is morally and socially indefensible," said Emmis President Rick Cummings in a statement. "All involved, myself included, are ashamed and deeply sorry. I know the members of the morning show are truly contrite. They know their actions here are inexcusable."
On Monday, the station and Miss Jones apologized and the seven-member morning crew agreed to donate one week's pay to relief efforts.
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If only we had magical powers that would allow them to have to live one week in the souls of those who lost family members and homes to the tsunami, like that Twilight Zone episode, then maybe they'd understand why what they did was so idiocally wrong.