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Posted by trunks1022 on Jan-26-2005 22:17:

hot 97 morning show done messed up

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/...reut/index.html

Radio station pulls show over tsunami slur
HOT 97 morning show ridiculed victims
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Posted: 2:08 PM EST (1908 GMT)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The entire staff of the New York radio show "Miss Jones in the Morning" was taken off the air on Wednesday after broadcasting a song that ridiculed victims of the tsunami in South Asia, the radio station said.

New York FM radio station WQHT, or HOT 97, repeatedly ran the segment last week on the show, hosted by deejay Tarsha Nicole Jones who uses the on-air name Miss Jones.

Jones and her team were suspended indefinitely, according to publicist Lizzie Grubman, who declined to say whether Jones would feature in another show at a later date.

"What happened is morally and socially indefensible," said Rick Cummings, president of Emmis Radio. The station is owned by Emmis Communications Corp.

"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," Cummings said in a statement.

The piece used racial slurs to describe people swept away in the disaster, made jokes about child slavery and people watching their mothers die.

"You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you b**ches swim,' " was one line in the song, sung by staff of the show to the melody of the 1985 famine relief song "We Are the World."

On Monday, the hip-hop and R&B radio station and the deejay apologized and the seven-member morning show crew agreed to donate one week's pay to relief efforts. The tsunami struck on December 26, leaving nearly 300,000 dead or missing around the Indian Ocean from Somalia to Thailand.

The incident is not the first time HOT 97 has been accused of racism and poor taste. The station made headlines when deejay Star, now at another radio station, called Jennifer Lopez a "rice-and-bean eater" and satirized the plane crash that killed R&B singer Aaliyah in 2001.

Posted by dj raymond wade on Jan-26-2005 22:20:

I heard it live on the radio and it was pretty offensive. BTW isnt the publicist Lizzie Grubman the one who ran over all those people on Long Island outside of a club a few years back?

Posted by trunks1022 on Jan-26-2005 22:20:

quote:
Originally posted by dj raymond wade
I heard it live on the radio and it was pretty offensive. BTW isnt the publicist Lizzie Grubman the one who ran over all those people on Long Island outside of a club a few years back?

yeah. surprised SHE is still working lol

Posted by Stassi on Jan-26-2005 22:31:

i heard the clip where that bitch Miss jones was yelling at Miss Info because she voiced her opinion on the song.
there is this one Asian Rapper who goes by the name Jin, he made a great track slamming the morning show. Get it
here

Anyway, i hope Miss jones' career falls off the planet.
I hope all the sponsors pull from hot97
and finally i hope Hot97 leaves from the airwaves for peddling the worlds sorriest excuse of HIP HOP.

EDIT
Star and Miss Jones both suck equally and i honestly thought they were the same person lolol.

Posted by Konijn on Jan-26-2005 22:41:

miss jones = offensive hot 97 dj
star jones = offensively rotund co-host of the view

Posted by djdl on Jan-26-2005 22:57:

thats pretty fucked up. no thats really fucked up. im sure if someone in asia made a parody song about 9/11 they wouldnt be laughing about it. its just a damn shame.

Posted by 531.am on Jan-27-2005 03:11:

http://students.washington.edu/jees...t97_tsunami.mp3

I just heard it through a different site, def. screwed up

Posted by AY STAR on Jan-27-2005 04:59:

who still listens to hot 97?
hip hop is garbage these days

Posted by trunks1022 on Jan-27-2005 05:18:

quote:
Originally posted by AY STAR
who still listens to hot 97?
hip hop is garbage these days

u're obviously missing the bigger point of this thread.

Posted by AY STAR on Jan-27-2005 05:24:

i heard the tape and how miss info doesnt think its cool and shes right its a real messed up song how can you make fun a of a tradgity like that its horrible and the people who wrote the song and sung it should get cancer of the eyes
iam just sayin that ive been boycotted hot 97 for a while now since hip hop is crap and now especally after this
theres no way i would support them
sorry about what i wrote before i gave you the wrong impression
but yes i do get the bigger point and its terrible what they did

Posted by MykonosBoy22 on Jan-27-2005 11:12:

They should not be suspended indefinetely, they should be fired immediately for it..That was next level shit rite there. and Jin is the man.

Posted by dj0zzman on Jan-27-2005 13:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Konijn
star jones = offensively rotund co-host of the view

lmao

Posted by vtec junkie on Jan-27-2005 14:01:

Leave it to some sorry ass bitch that has nothing better to do, that was a dork in high school and played in the radio class all day dreaming about cracking sorry ass jokes on air to make our country look like shit.

Posted by Miss Bliss on Jan-27-2005 14:17:

heard something about this but figured it couldn't be true... how naive of me confidence in the people of the world went down another little notch

Posted by push01 on Jan-27-2005 16:18:

I emailed them my thoughts and I hope they are fired. You can do the same. Make your voices heard:

http://www.hot97.com/info/contact.aspx?origin=nav

Posted by Stassi on Jan-27-2005 16:22:

Dont bother emailing hot97, they dont care.
email their sponsors and complain.

Posted by dj tek on Jan-27-2005 16:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Stassi
Dont bother emailing hot97, they dont care.
email their sponsors and complain.

word. +1

Posted by push01 on Jan-27-2005 16:43:

Good idea. I dont listen to Hot 97 and cant get a handle from their website as to the main sponsors of the station; can someone shed some light? Cheers.

Posted by trunks1022 on Jan-27-2005 16:45:

http://www.petitiononline.com/endhate/petition.html

online petition, plus list of sponsors

Posted by cryo on Jan-27-2005 16:45:

im listening to this thing right now. this is really fucked up. and the argument before it, miss jones can stfu

Posted by dj tek on Jan-27-2005 16:50:

who does the mroning show now ? miss jones and who else ?

Posted by planbrad on Jan-27-2005 17:03:

i didnt listen to the hot97 thing because i think its wrong and i have no need to hear it.

i just listened to a freestyle by that asian rapper, jin. it was a response to the song, and he seems to address the issues of the song and is actually a nice little freestyle.

http://207.44.218.22/ssh2d/jin-tsunami_response.mp3

(not sure if that link will stay up)

Posted by Stassi on Jan-27-2005 17:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Stassi
Get it
here

i already posted the song, and its off jins site, its not going anywhere soon.
and its not a freestyle..
by the way, i just got word the hot97 morning staff is fired.

Posted by BxNemo on Jan-27-2005 17:45:

goes to show you how stupid these hip hop homeboys and girls can be.

Posted by Konijn on Jan-27-2005 17:46:

firing someone for a matter of speech, however offensive it might be, is not the right move and sets a terrible precedent...

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