Controversies Media Matters for America
1 controversies 1.1 don imus 1.2 rush limbaugh phony soldiers 1.3 bill o reilly harlem restaurant 1.4 laura schlessinger racial slur 1.5 war on fox 1.6 tax-exempt status challenge controversies don imus on april 4, 2007, media matters posted video clip of don imus calling rutgers university women s basketball team members nappy-headed hoes , made discovery known in media matters daily e-mailing hundreds of journalists. next day, according wall street journal, top news outlets didn t mention incident. objections made cbs radio national association of black journalists led on-the-air apology imus. msnbc, calling imus s comments racist , abhorrent, suspended imus show, , within minutes, cbs suspended imus s radio show. wall street journal said imus s apology seemed make matters worse, critics latching on mr. imus s use of phrase people. included among dissatisfied imus s apology , suspension coach of rutgers team , group of msnbc african-american employees. after procter ...