"Don Imus may have never intended to have an impact on the hip-hop industry, but his infamous fall from grace has shaken up the rap world as new sensitivities arise over what is played on the radio.
One month after the shock jock was fired from CBS for his comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, there is intense pressure on radio and music executives to clean up the airwaves.
Even classic radio shock jocks are feeling the pressure. Last weekend two New York DJ's were fired after making a crass prank call to a Chinese restaurant, an act that might have gone unnoticed months ago."
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3173476&page=1
One month after CBS Radio fired radio host Don Imus, it has permanently pulled the plug on a pair of suspended New York shock jocks for a prank phone call rife with offensive Asian stereotypes.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3168478
The town hall meeting, as Oprah billed it, put much of the blame for Imus' calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the demeaning imagery of women in hip-hop and rap music.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3046650&page=1
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