UK music magazine The World was today forced by an English court to apologize to Morrissey for mischaracterizing him as a racist. The publication had accused Moz of “attacking immigration” in an article after he had said in an interview that he’s hesitant to move back to the UK because of its dwindling British identity.
Slate's Wesley Morris: "Between the outrage over Obama's Jeremiah Wright problems and Bill Clinton's unbelievable mutation from American's first black president into Karl Rove, I don't have the bandwidth to fight Anna Wintour. Seeing that cover as purely racist doesn't give the people looking at it enough credit. It dates Vogue for relying on the allusion but it also dates us for going crazy over it. Racial hysteria is the old black. Maybe it's so old it's avant-garde—very Vogue." [Slate, earlier]
Forgive the Associated Press for only yesterday getting around to covering the "King Kong" controversy surrounding LeBron James' appearance on the cover of Vogue. After all, they only announced themselves as celebrity obsessed on Friday.
Fox News anchor Sean Hannity might be a Neo-Nazi-loving white supremacist sympathizer. Or maybe Hannity just took some phone calls from a Jew hater on his radio show a few years back. Or, equally plausible, he was never friends with Hal Turner. But he is friendly with one crazy white lady. [HuffPo]
In the UK today, Basil Brush, a children’s television program about a fox, was exonerated of charges of racism, reports the BBC. After receiving a phone call from a private citizen who complained of a scene depicting a “Gypsy woman,” police investigated the case, concluded it had no merit and made no arrests. In related news, IN ENGLAND YOU CAN CALL THE COPS IF YOU WITNESS RACISM ON TV AND THEY MIGHT GO AND ARREST SOMEONE!!!!!!
Awkward moment for Fox Sports:
We're predicting Al Sharpton will demand the firing of the Fox Sports' call-in screeners.
Our black little sister Stereohyped took to the streets yesterday to investigate hip-hop stereotypes. We learned that we should never judge baggy pants and that it’s impossible to seem smart when dressed up as a cat, even if it is Halloween. [Stereohyped]
The recent massacre in Cleveland has brought out the news instincts of Fox know-it-all John Gibson,
I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again.
In case you missed it, by hip-hoppers, John Gibson was referring to black people, specifically the kinds who listen to hip-hop and murder people.
Oh, the soft-bigotry of low expectations.
As Don Imus approaches a deal that could leave him wealthier than before the Rutgers incident, the National Association of Black Journalists is getting pissed.
In a statement, NABJ’s vice president said,
It seems inconceivable that less than a year after Imus was dismissed from CBS Radio and MSNBC for his vicious insults upon the Rutgers women's basketball team, that Citadel Broadcasting and Fox News would consider putting him back on the air.
It’s not surprising that Citadel Broadcasting is looking to make money. What’s hard to swallow is that Don Imus, despite being, well, Don Imus, will help them make money.
Fox News was actually never involved in the deal. Apparently being amazed that black people can behave themselves is fine, but mocking the haircare of a women's basketball team crosses the line.
Twenty million dollars and a few nappy headed hos later, Don Imus is back. Imus is in talks with Citadel Broadcasting, which owns ABC radio, for a new show.
There’s no word on what the contract will be worth, but if his new one is worth more than half of the old one, he’ll come out on top.
He won a $20 million settlement from CBS Radio, half of what the remaining years would have been worth. So if he garners a contract worth more than $20 million, he made money from getting fired.
The lesson for all aspiring radio personalities: racism pays.
[Variety]
When Bill O'Reilly made his "black people, they're just like us" comments last week, he didn't mean it in a racist way. Liberal media is so sensitive these days. [Stereohyped]
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