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Originally Posted by Kevin
Sans the media circus over this and the repetition of the words over and over, no one would have even heard about this thing, the Rutgers women would have been spared their humiliation, etc. Imus' show and his words would have been like that tree falling in the forest where no one was around to hear it.
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Not necessarily. Different "controversies" receive different media attention. That doesn't mean the people who were the targets of the comments wouldn't have been affected without the media attention.
And it wasn't so much the media circus as it was persistent civil rights representatives (for gender and racial equality) who kept contacting Imus' people and putting this information out there via professional organization listserves. Every professional and social organization that I am a member of has issued a formal statement either to its membership or to Imus' people.
Imus' show has already lost 3 key corporate sponsors. I liked Imus but just read a news story from my gender group that chronicled his career antics. It's no longer about risque humor, a la Southpark or other sattires. Now I'm just wondering why people besides concerned Christian groups of the past hadn't spoken out.