And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization: The University of Michigan - Flint
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:02:52 EDT
>Subject: (Fwd) Re: CBS Radio Hate Crimes
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>Please forward to all........
>
>Lets give support to our African-American brothers and sisters, and
humanity in
>general, by reaching out and touching Doug Tracht personally. Contact his
>radio station at
> Fax: 1-301-468-WARW
> regular phone: 1-301-984-6000.
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Please keep in mind...Tracht has a priviledged HISTORY of making hate
remarks
>on the air because he creates "profit" at the expense of ethnic groups of
>people. Previous disciplinary action has been a joke...surface hand
slapping
>to appease offended people...because Tracht brings in lots of dollars for
the
>machavellian types who only see the bottom line of business: dollars,
dollars,
>dollars.
>
>Catherine Davids
>Flint, Michigan
>
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>Greaseman Taken Off the Air Indefinitely By Frank Ahrens Radio's
>
>Greaseman, shock jock Doug Tracht, has been suspended indefinitely
>without pay for a race-related remark he made yesterday during his morning
>drive-time show on classic rock station WARW (94.7 FM. A little after 7
>a.m., Tracht noted that the Grammy Awards ceremony was scheduled for that
>evening and played a portion of a song by Lauryn Hill, the young black
>hip-hop artist nominated for 10 Grammys. Then he commented:
>"No wonder people drag them behind trucks." The reference was to the brutal
>torture and death in Texas of James Byrd Jr., decapitated while being
dragged
>behind a pickup truck driven by white supremacist John William King, who was
>convicted of murder on Tuesday. In announcing Tracht's suspension, which
began
>immediately, WARW General Manager Sarah Taylor said she "deplored the
comment
>and was appalled by it." "There is no room for remarks like that at our
station
>and I apologize to all the listeners who were quite rightly offended by it,"
>Taylor said. She would not say if Tracht is in danger of being fired, adding
>only that she had "a lot of alternatives available." The decision to suspend
>Tracht was hers, though she said it is supported by the station's owner, CBS
>Radio in New York, where Tracht's comment reverberated. Taylor has not
named a
>replacement for him. Tracht did not return phone calls but did fax a
>one-paragraph statement to The Washington Post: I'm truly sorry for the pain
>and hurt I have caused with my unfeeling comment," he wrote. "I have no
excuse
>for my remark, and regret it. If I could take it back I would. In the
course of
>my show, split second judgement is made over ad-libs. This remark was a
grave
>error in my judgement." WARW received "a few" complaint calls about Tracht, a
>receptionist reported. Tracht, 48, is known as a talented radio star, a
>fixture on morning radio in Washington through the 1980s at WWDC (101.1
>FM), where he pulled in high ratings. He left in 1992 for a short-lived
>and less than successful turn in Los Angeles, where he hoped to pursue
>acting as well as radio. He returned to Washington in 1997 and landed at
>WARW. His shtick involves lightning-fast ad-lib monologues that range from
>the sexual to the biologically grotesque, combining adolescent and
>sophisticated humor with social commentary. As a veteran shock jock, he is
>practiced in dancing along the line of acceptability. Usually he is very
>funny. Yesterday he was not. Joe Madison, who hosts an afternoon radio
>show on black talk WOL (1450 AM), used Tracht's comment as a "launching
>point to talk about the continuation of the cultural condition in America
>that undervalues, underestimates and marginalizes black America." "It goes
>beyond tasteless," said an angry Madison. "It shows you can be nominated
>for 10 Grammys and be on the cover of Time magazine but you're still just
>a n - . . . I don't want to use the word." This is the second time Tracht
>has landed in hot water for such a remark. In 1986, while at WWDC, he was
>talking about the Martin Luther King holiday when he said, "Kill four more
>and we can take a whole week off." The station was picketed, received bomb
>threats and lost advertisers. Tracht, who left town on a previously
>scheduled vacation just after the remark, was met upon his return by D.C.
>police with bulletproof vests, according to a source. They escorted him to
>the radio station for his first show back, where he made an on-air apology.
>But local memories are long. Tracht appeared in a Warner Theatre show in
>January celebrating Washington radio history. He was followed by Donnie
>Simpson - host of the morning show on hip-hop WPGC - who noted, laughing,
how
>unfair it was that he had to follow Tracht only a few days after the King
>holiday. Yesterday, Simpson was not laughing. "This is the second time that
>the Greaseman has promoted killing my people," said Simpson, who said he
>would feature the remark on his show today. "This is too far. This is more
>than shocking. This is racist." One listener heard Tracht's comment and
>called Russ Parr, who hosts the morning show on black-hits WKYS (93.9 FM).
>The caller was flabbergasted, Parr said. "It's that kind of comment that
>constantly divides the races and people," Parr said. "If I were to make a
>comment like that, I would be slayed by my audience and slayed by my
employer."
>An FCC spokeswoman said Tracht's comment did not violate the agency's
decency
>standards.
>
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