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Speed Channel suspends pit reporter

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"Ray Dunlap has been suspended for one race for making comments on-air that the company found inappropriate," Speed vice president for media relations Erik Arneson said Thursday.
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To read the rest of this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061020/ap_en_tv/car_analyst_suspended Another one of these broadcasters saying the wrong things at the wrong time. These broadcasters need to be more professinal when they are on the air. Charlotte Observer newspaper: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/15803354.htm
 
Per the article: "Fox owns the Charlotte-based Speed channel."

And yes, Mr. Mudflap pulled a Lyons - if you know what I mean.

George Lopez is pised off right now...
 
Does anyone else here see that the PC police are out of control? Or that freedom of speech is being unnecessarily restricted? These guys who've been fired made pretty mild comments.

More disturbing is the uneven "enforcement" of these "standards". In fact, this guy should have insulted white people instead - that would be perfectly acceptable and he might even have been hailed as being "witty"!

For those keeping track, it's ok to be offensive to Christians, whites, asians or Jews (depending on context and who does it); God help you if you say anything the least bit disagreeable about blacks, latinos, muslims, women or gays. Do that and your career is over.

Not sure who made up these "rules" but they're out of control to the extent that you can't even have a dialogue about certain groups without being slapped with the "r" word. It's truly sad, because fear of being "offensive" now rules the day. Ridiculous.
 
BRNout said:
Does anyone else here see that the PC police are out of control? Or that freedom of speech is being unnecessarily restricted? These guys who've been fired made pretty mild comments.

More disturbing is the uneven "enforcement" of these "standards". In fact, this guy should have insulted white people instead - that would be perfectly acceptable and he might even have been hailed as being "witty"!

For those keeping track, it's ok to be offensive to Christians, whites, asians or Jews (depending on context and who does it); God help you if you say anything the least bit disagreeable about blacks, latinos, muslims, women or gays. Do that and your career is over.

Not sure who made up these "rules" but they're out of control to the extent that you can't even have a dialogue about certain groups without being slapped with the "r" word. It's truly sad, because fear of being "offensive" now rules the day. Ridiculous.
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Yes, there is a double standard. Yes, some of the "rules" are ridiculous.

No, there is no "freedom of speech" issue involved. People who work in broadcasting do not have freedom of speech. They are employees for hire - employed at will. Broadcasters (people who own broadcast stations and cable channels) may have some free speech rights; on air talent has none. If a broadcaster thinks air talent has violated station policies or is going to do something that will cause people to write letters and make complaints, that air talent gets fired. It's called cover your ass. Sh* runs down-hill. Talent knows the score going in.
 
fred flintstone said:
Yes, there is a double standard. Yes, some of the "rules" are ridiculous.

No, there is no "freedom of speech" issue involved. People who work in broadcasting do not have freedom of speech. They are employees for hire - employed at will. Broadcasters (people who own broadcast stations and cable channels) may have some free speech rights; on air talent has none. If a broadcaster thinks air talent has violated station policies or is going to do something that will cause people to write letters and make complaints, that air talent gets fired. It's called cover your ass. Sh* runs down-hill. Talent knows the score going in.
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Although there is a lot of truth to what you're saying, it's not right. And, it doesn't just apply to broadcasters anymore. Anyone can get the ax for making a non-PC comment these days. Doesn't matter who you work for.

Oddly enough, those who claim to be the most *accepting* in our society are the very same people who are the least likely to tolerate ideas that they don't like or agree with. Hence, the PC police.
 
Well, Speed Channel better go back into its archives and pluck one particular comment from its Daytona 500 tapes. Airiing on SunSports this summer, pit report Chris Economaki referred to a special tool the pit crews use to bend sheetmetal back from damaged stock cars....we know it as a sledge hammer. Economaki referred to it as a "Mexican Speedwrench"....
 
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