NEW YORK, April 11 Radio host Don Imus should be fired for his racial slur about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, said a board member of CBS Corp. in New York.
"As an African-American, I believe that Imus has crossed the line, a very bright line that divides our country," Bruce Gordon, a CBS director and former president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, said Wednesday. "His remarks are so significant that I believe that the right outcome is for him to be terminated." Gordon said, however, that CBS Radio's two-week suspension levied against Imus is a step in the right direction, CNN reported Wednesday.
The show's suspension provides management a chance to examine what Imus' actions mean to the company, its brand and "what it stands for," Gordon said. Once that is completed, the facts should determine whether Imus should be fired. Concurrent with the CBS Radio suspension is MSNBC's two-week suspension of its cable television simulcast of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show. During a show last week, Imus called Rutgers players "nappy-headed hos."
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