Radio Station Apologizes Over Tsunami Slur
"New York (Reuters) - A New York radio station apologized on Monday for repeatedly airing a joke song that ridiculed victims of the recent tsunami in South Asia and used racial slurs, saying the piece was in poor taste.
"New York FM radio station WQHT, or HOT 97, ran the segment on its 'Miss Jones in the Morning' show. The piece used racial slurs to describe people swept away in the disaster, made jokes about child slavery and people watching their mothers die."
I'm curious why Reuters have put this in their Oddly Enough category (from which I quoted the story of the German who was arrested for being drunk in charge of lawnmower) and not in their ordinary news section.
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One month after the tsunami ... floating a candle in the Indian Ocean:
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"New York (Reuters) - A New York radio station apologized on Monday for repeatedly airing a joke song that ridiculed victims of the recent tsunami in South Asia and used racial slurs, saying the piece was in poor taste.
"New York FM radio station WQHT, or HOT 97, ran the segment on its 'Miss Jones in the Morning' show. The piece used racial slurs to describe people swept away in the disaster, made jokes about child slavery and people watching their mothers die."
I'm curious why Reuters have put this in their Oddly Enough category (from which I quoted the story of the German who was arrested for being drunk in charge of lawnmower) and not in their ordinary news section.
One month after the tsunami ... floating a candle in the Indian Ocean:
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