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A caller was on the air and wanted to dedicate a song to all the pizza delivery folks working in the rain. Said he wanted to "give a shout out". Female DJ replied "Sundays are normally our day for Shout Outs". Pizza Delivery Guy replied "Yeah but my friends aren't in jail". Female DJ replied "Oh come on, THEY'RE not ALL in jail"............hmmm what was that supposed to mean???
 
All day Sunday on WBRU it's the 360 Degree Black Experience which I'm sure is heavy on dedications & shout-outs. Sounds a bit derogatory to me but it sounds like the caller initially took it in that direction which was uncalled for but the jock shouldn't have chimed in. The station's efforts to do away with Sunday programming in the past have been unsuccessful & it is a well-done show.
 
Right, I know what BRU has on Sundays. I don't listen to it, but I was completely offended by the remarks, and I'm not black. I wish someone else heard it. It was at 12:40pm.
 
What offended you?

Since when does a rock station accept "shout outs" anyway?
 
I know what moderator is saying... that's totally inapropriate. The caller implied that because his pizza delivery friends were white that they weren't criminals. He definately started it, but the "not ALL in jail' comment would be grounds for termination in my book. And perhaps a lawsuit agiast the radio station and school. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
 
Did the DJ make a reference to the pizza guys taking customers' wallets, too? :eek:
 
LOL. The funny thing is that we'll sit around with our friends and make the same stupid jokes and it's supposed to be OK. But God forbid someone say it on the RADIO, and everyone freaks out.

Relax people. Tune into TV Land and watch some sitcoms from the 70's like Sanford and Son, All In The Family (or) The Jeffersons. You'll hear the same type jokes. Why was it ok then, but for some strange reason it's not OK now? Apparently everyone has lost their sense of humor in the last 30 years!!!

As for the Lawsuit comment. Are you an Attorney Lovefist? This country is way to sue happy. Everyone wants to sue. "Oh Some words on The Radio made me mad. Call a lawyer".

That's totally ridiculous.
 
Skynet... "All In the Family" was a spoof on racism, not a racist show. Archie Bunker was a satiracal charater and the humor from the show came from the stupid/ignorant things he said about people.

A pizza guy making a racist comment on a rock station run by an Ivy League university is a totally different story.

It's true you can put it on the caller for the most part, but when the DJ chimed in too with her "not ALL in jail" comment, she opened herself up to trouble and the college up to litigation or sanctions from the FCC.

I agree, it's a totally lawsuit happy society, and I wouldn't sue... but I'm sure the ACLU would LOVE to!
 
LoveFist said:
It's true you can put it on the caller for the most part, but when the DJ chimed in too with her "not ALL in jail" comment, she opened herself up to trouble and the college up to litigation or sanctions from the FCC.
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Hmmm..... I don't really see this as her doing anything wrong. She was actually defending herself and her friends. Perhaps she was even playing along so that people would not take the callers comments seriously. All she may have been doing is interjecting a little humor to lessen the chances of anyone getting upset. Any way you slice it, it's a Real stretch to say that she actually did anything wrong. I just don't see it.
 
While I didn't hear what actually aired on WBRU. I'm not going to comment. But its up to the Jock to make sure
what goes on the air is appropriate. More so for stations that play music. Talk radio is a different ballgame.But why put on the air a caller that is live just for a 'shout-out' is beyond me. Record the caller. And edit it. So its appropriate for broadcast. Simple..............
 
Exactly... and I doubt that anyone at BRU is taking calls and putting them live on the air durring the music shifts - I would assume that they're recorded. It's certainly her responsibility because she recorded the call, and then aired it.
 
This reminds me of my time as a board op at Lite 105. When Art Spencer wasn't there, the Board Ops got to have a little fun and run the show. One of the guidelines in the manual (yes, there was a manual for the show) was that we could not play "shout outs" or dedications for ACI inmates.
 
This p.c. crap is getting out of hand.
If anyone bothered to listen to BRU on Sundays they would hear that there are tons of 'shout outs' all going to their 'baby's daddy' to the ACI.
If thats the culture they want to perpetrate then they deserve whatever sarcastic jokes they get said about them.
If they were just a little bright they would stop the 'shout outs' to prison and stop treating incarceration like a badge of honor.
The BRU Sunday crew should wise up and stop this practice of shoutouts to all the baby daddys that are locked up.
 
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