I wade into the muck of the Imus story, by asking ten questions and answering them, in this week's North Star column.
Meanwhile, on E-Gear, those Michigan Democratic legislators have abandoned that curious plan to use $38 million in public funds to buy iPods for every public school student. The lawmakers claim the proposal was "misconstrued" and really had nothing to do with iPods; but the comment in question consisted of a legislator holding up an iPod and saying "we want this in the hands of every student in the state of Michigan.”
And Circuit City and Best Buy are each sued in California- the former for age discrimination (its "fire everyone qualified" strategy ensnared some older people) and the latter for sexual harassment after a Geek Squad employee taped a woman showering. The plaintiffs' attorney in both matters? You guessed it, Gloria Allred. Apparently, she's not too busy representing the Michael Richards comedy club patrons.
I'll also have a new piece in PhillyEdge, probably this week.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 16, 2007 05:06 PMAs usual blogger I find your analysis of the Imus thing to be contradictory just like many of your opinions on other issues. It's good you agreed the guy should stick to raising money for charity. It's something he is good at and it helped people and not hurt people. Although maybe Imus being fired was long overdue, he was a scapegoat compared to the NAACP focusing on getting, I don't know, Rush Limbaugh, off the airwaves. I find the whole thing overly PC and hypocritcal. Not you blogger, the issue and the civil right agenda with media these days.
Posted by: A at April 17, 2007 12:33 AM