Change management
Change Requires Conversation
A few weeks ago syndicated radio host Don Imus was fired for making degrading remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. By almost any standard other than his own maybe, his remarks were regarded as racist. So, after a short brouhaha played out in the media, Imus was fired. MSNBC dropped his program from television and CBS fired him from their network. Not long after I asked readers in this blog why they thought he was fired.
At the time this was national news. Why? I thought at the time that something shifted in the nation’s consciousness–that flagrantly racist ideas spouted by media figures are not acceptable. I wonder if anything has changed though.
Critics of both CBS and MSNBC said others with a public pulpit had long been denigrating blacks,…
