So, sponsors flee, MSNBC cans the simulcast, and CBS fires Don Imus, and yet the team actually accepts the apology by Imus.
Did someone overreact here by firing Imus? If the team can accept the apology is that not sufficient or were people out to extricate their pound of flesh?
I think this was an overreaction by the networks and sponsors. Suspensions were more than appropriate given the way that they've looked the other way for years when rappers, musicians, pundits, radio hosts, and countless others have made statements far more damaging.
UPDATE:
Macranger wonders why Viacom and CBS have no problem with Comedy Central and the Dave Chapelle show, which has run pieces far more damaging to the sensitivities that they claim caused them to can Imus. Double standards run amok and the firing has little to do with what Imus said and more to do with the pressure the company was under from various sources.
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