I almost feel bad for weekly news magazines/websites. By the time they go to press they are left in the dust with only crumbs of the good news stories. Take Time magazine this week. The whole Imus thing has come and gone, but they got to sell some copies (and having a nude woman on the cover would probably not fit into their corporate image). So, what do they do? They put up a patently ridiculous cover suggesting (but not saying) that maybe this whole thing is a first amendment issue. Whaaaaat?
Listen, if Imus were on public TV/radio I could listen to that argument for about half a second. Bu, since Bush wasn't threatening to arrest him (or have Cheney shoot him in the face), there are no free speech issues here. Oh, and freedom of speech and freedom from consequences of your speech are two completely different things.
In the meantime, I wonder why it took CBS two weeks to decide that what he said was offensive enough to get him fired? It's not like he added a significant amount of fuel to the fire afterwards. Between the Opie and Anthony show and Howard Stern, my guess is that the CBS lawyers were on top of these things in case they got sued for wrongful termination. I'm curious as to which big advertiser got their attention.
I think the over-under on Imus hosting a show on satellite radio is about8 weeks.
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