Some recent news on this issue.
NEW YORK - January 28 10:00 a.m., students held a protest rally in front of Hot 97 WQHT-FM Studios in New York to denounce the production and repeated broadcasts of the racially inflammatory Hot 97 "Tsunami Song," and to hold the radio station and parent company responsible. The song was broadcast on the morning of December 18, sung by the hosts of the "Miss Jones in the Morning Show," and posted on to the Hot 97 website.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>However, according from Asian Media Watchdog, at the rally against HOT 97's Tsunami Song, Councilman John Liu revealed that the Miss Jones in the Morning Show team is getting a *paid* suspension! The station has rewarded Miss Jones for her hateful antics with a paid vacation!
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=4036
http://www.theregular.org/node/1846
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/279705p-239650c.html
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Campaigns/HOT97.htm
There is also another site to send the protest letter:
http://www.asianmediawatch.net/missjones/index.html |